Happy 250th birthday to the best country on earth! I was reading a book the other day and was struck by this paragraph. I don’t know who the author was but I thought it was brilliant and perfectly said…🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I was in 5th grade when one of the popular boys came to my house riding on his bike. He asked me to be his girlfriend, but I thought he already had a girl friend in our grade. I was so excited I called my mom at work to tell her. The next day in school I found out it was a joke.
If you’re curious what it’s like to be the “big girl” in a friend group, imagine you’re out celebrating your birthday with your friends, and a group of guys are chatting and looking over at your table, it’s loud and obvious they’re talking about someone(s) at your table.
One of the guys then approaches the table and taps your shoulder, he starts asking about you, your name, age, job, etc. Then he asks the golden question, “can I have your phone number?”
You hesitate because this doesn’t happen often. However, your friends hype you up. So you start to give your number, when he turns around and shouts to his friends “you guys owe me $50”
All the guys start laughing. You hear one guy say “I told you fat girls are easy.”
These situations of jokingly asking out big girls or pretending to be interested in them, is sickening. It’s one of the many reasons why I personally did not date until I lost weight.
Someone could have actually been interested in me, but when you’re made fun of and used as a joke so many times, you learn to protect yourself.
To people who do this, you suck. Your parents didn’t raise you well & everyone deserves respect no matter their size.
All jokes and comparisons aside…here’s to the boy bands that came before us and the ones yet to be formed. What a special thing it is to be a part of something that makes so many people so happy.