Sweet Revenge

 

Recently I came through an article in the newspaper stressing on the issues that many school children committed suicide because of body shaming.

Body Shaming means humiliating someone by mocking or criticizing their body shape or size.

It may be your friends or neighbours making fun of you because you are fat or slender. The pain that he or she undergoes is terrible. That taunting will echo in their ears the whole day. This will break their mental health and push them in the state of depression. Because I experienced it.

I was a big fat boy when I was a kid. The weight was exceeding my age. My siblings were thin and fit. School and neighbourhood friends mocked me whenever they saw me. They gave me nick names like Sumo, Thadiya, Football. They enjoyed calling me by that name. I hated myself.

One day while playing cricket with neighbourhood friends, one of them started calling me sumo showing several action, rest of them were laughing. I just threw the bat away and ran to home and locked myself in the room. I was crying the whole day. At some point I thought let’s end this. Life is useless. I still remember, I placed a blade near my veins. But something was preventing me from doing it. I don’t know what was that something. Maybe it was my parents face or those who love me. I don’t want my parents crying in front of their son’s death body. After that a few days I never spoke to anyone. I hated myself. I hated myself for being fat. I never ate food at all. I completely avoided junk food. I undergone rigorous exercises. Within 2 months I lost 13 kgs. After that I looked normal, a normal fit boy. I never gave chance to others to mock me. If that call me sumo no one will believe that. I made them shut up their mouth by my actions.

That was a sweet revenge….

I don’t understand what happiness they get when they make fun of a person. Try to understand the pain and trauma that person going through. You will never understand until it happens to you.

Suicide is not an option. But shutting up their mouth is a very good option not by a fight but through good actions. Let them bark and spread toxicity. Don’t get dishearten. First accept yourself whichever form you are. Love yourself. Then nothing can break you.