(NOT FOR THE FATTY
HEARTED)
Well it’s almost
Christmas again; the Nigerian Olympics for rice cooking, fuel scarcity and the
torture of listening to Christmas song everywhere you turn……..Feliz Navidad, propesro ańoy Felicidad (repeat 1000000x)
Christmas is big on our
minds for a lot of reasons but for some, and at one point for me, it was
another pivotal period to enter the fattening room and fight the demon called
fast metabolism. Now without trying to sound unnecessarily cerebral like some
school lecturers, fast metabolism is basically what makes skinny people remain
skinny.
I warned you didn’t I? If
you have been all about that bass (fat) without treble (slim) all your life,
this might sound more confusing than our country’s politics.
Remember Fido Dido? That skinny animated 7up sensation during the
early 90s; way before Nigerians relegated the drink to what you just mix with
“ugwu” leaf to cure acute malaria. Never been called that? Then you don’t know
how important the struggle is during this period.
You enter into a
crowded place and your head drops evil lines:
“Mirror, Mirror on the
wall; who is the skinniest of them all”
Spare a thought to when
your plans for the festive period, was narrowed to just eating enough food to
ensure that when you get to school to resume a semester, friends would flower
you with compliments:
‘Ahan! Na u be this? See as you don fat!
Chai! So u fit fine
like this?
Abeg, Abeg, no reduce,
so na school dey make u look like suffer person?’
Kind of validates the
thought that some of us are not really ugly but just skinny, stressed and maybe
broke.
Some of us now have
gotten married, given birth, left school, gotten a job, now a boss and the slim
monster has finally been defeated. Although fatty tissue is not necessarily the
consequence of all these, but my point is this:
Forever doesn’t exist
on earth
Today, it might be
about food and the moving away from the depression of the ‘skinnies’; tomorrow
it might be the battle to shake off being super-sized, broke, jobless,
unmarried, loveless, sick or anything that faults your reality. Like many things
in this life, these too shall pass.
So as you enjoy the
Christmas, make laughs and create moments, remember: the challenges of life
fades just like the season….
Have
a chicken filled Christmas people.
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