Monday 19 August 2019

Does the belly walk the man or the man the belly?

I watched a man who seemingly quite slender from behind, waddled along the gangway. His arms unable to come down onto his sides and his legs walking round each other, he turned sideways to watch as we pulled off and his 11 month pregnancy revealed itself through the tightness of his sweatshirt.
He leaned over his protruberence and launched his arms toward the rail, his feet splayed outward to maintain an upright posture.
Is this what this world is reduced too? Gluttony on a mammoth scale? Burgers, fries, colas, sweets, sugars, sticky buns and the rest?
This man was in his mid thirties I presume. He had two small children. Was he teaching them the ways of the world.......through the eyes of obesity? Of course he was, and the two girls were learning; this is what men should look like.
I despair.

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