Big Or Beautiful?

A dear friend hit the nail on the head words that take tremendous courage to say, let alone put down on paper.

So in the words of Nicholas D'silva...

This is the choice presented to every person driving past Bur Juman. Accompanied with the picture of a moderately big person smiling beautifully, a large poster asks the readers to SMS their choice to a number, courtesy Dove. Perhaps I missed the point, because the only answer I could reply with was “Is being big the opposite of being beautiful?” Maybe it is. After all, it’s always the “beautiful” people who earn our second glance and the bigger people, the third and fourth. Simple logic will therefore point out that big people are ugly people.

It is indeed strange that at a time when cultural and religious barriers are trying to be broken, we fail to carry out a simple action of not judging a person’s beauty by his/her size. If mutual respect for one another’s human flaws (and God know there are many) is beyond a person’s arrogance, then s/he does not deserve a human relationship. After all what is a relationship without respect?

Being beautiful was never about size and I am talking about a person’s physical beauty. Those who oppose should really open their eyes and look around. You’ll find a number of beautiful people, despite their size. It’s all a matter of perception. Growing up in an environment where size dictates beauty, it is only natural that many of us fail to open our mind and/or broaden our line of sight. So the question then is not “Big and Beautiful?”, but rather “Sightless or Snobbish?” However, all said and done, perhaps the objective of the survey was to provoke exactly these thoughts.