While looking through my computer at pieces of writing that I haven’t finished or liked I found this little gem. Or at least I think its a gem because in my cynical mind its hilarious. I don’t remember writing this, but at some point I wanted to create an animation with this spoken over the video. It was probably written on a bad day after getting stuck behind people at starbucks….
Lets Talk about FAT
You think your fat,
You hate fat
So you go on a diet
Start eating fat free foods
Slip in some non fat free foods
Stand in line at your favorite coffee joint and order a non fat soy venti latte with whip,
Add some cream in the corner so no one can see you
Work out
Talk to your girlfriends about your fatness
They talk about how all they ate was a grape the day before
You go out to dinner, order a salad with dressing on the side
Put more dressing on the salad than if it was tossed in the dressing
Cry when your diet fails
You go back on a diet,
More strict than before
More unhappy than before
Feel like it’s a downward spiral
Watch the happy fat people enjoy themselves
Hate the fat happy people
Think said people are horrible people
Maybe because they are happy
Maybe because they don’t fit in your small minded view of the world
Maybe because you hate yourself
Whose the one with the issues?
Oh my god this is fabulous!! I'm so thoroughly impressed. The beauty of this is it really brings into sharp focus the horrors of self hatred and of tying to exert external control on one's weight and diet. All around yucky.