Opinions are like….well you know everyone has one.
Let me set the scene: it is early as hell, I’ve just rolled outta bed, I brush my teeth, I dress in the dark so I don’t wake anyone; half the time I don’t match, shirts may even be inside out and I head to the gym. Let’s not even mention the tangled mess and disarray my hair is in. Walking in I am tired and just want to get the stepmill torture done and over with…cue old guy who needs to tell me how I’m looking:
“Wow young lady you are looking awful skinny, you know a man likes a woman with some curves.”
Then the following week when he sees me:
“Hey young lady, I don’t know what’s going on, but you are getting a little thick.”
Really?! I went from skinny as hell to a fat slob in a week. I don’t know if he does this to razz me (I am officially old for using that word, BTW) because I am the type to laugh it off and joke back. To the skinny remark I reply with, “ well I’m just so love sick over you I can’t eat” and to the fat comment “more cushion for pushing.” He laughs, I laugh and all is good, but in the depths of my dark little soul this is what I am thinking about doing to him:
Why can’t people just keep quiet?
It never fails, when you are trying to put on size, the idiot comes along and asks you if you are losing weight. When you are getting ready for a show and leaning out, here he comes again to tell you how skinny you are or worse yet the woman that says you are looking way too muscular. When you’re trying to set new PR’s the jackass that you’ve never seen lift has to correct your form!
In my Tony Montano voice, this is what I am thinking, shut up and say hello to my lil friend:
In this mad lib life, everyone has an adjective to describe you. Some may be flattering and others may hurt your feelings and cause self doubt. Like my mom says, there is a seat for every ass and you are someones idea of perfection if not your own. In the end, you have to be happy with you, shrug it off and move on. Do what I do, create stick figure scenarios, they are fun and they won’t even realize you just annihilated them in your head-in my scenarios I am always WINNING:
