been thinking about women for the past two weeks. this is of course fuelled by the lectures i had on language and gender and how things are going on in my life.
mummy just told me of someone i know who became a mother at the age of 15. and now, her child is already 3 years old. i wondered how would she raise up the child and how would the child turn out to be like in the future. i'm pretty sure that this would have many repurcussions on the life of this child.
what got me most bothered is really the increasing number of teenage pregnancies in Singapore. some opted for abortions while some becomes mothers, while another group of them give up their child for adoption.
and the bottomline goes down to the security of knowing who we are and about being a woman. there is no doubt that all of us are created differently but yet, women in general share the same needs, except that they are expressed differently.
we see so many women around complaining that they are too heavy, too fat, ugly and the list goes on. it doesn't help when parents and peers affirms it too. just how do we justify all the 'too ____"? is it just by the number on the weighing scale? or is it by the eyebags that we have?
i get a bit frustrated at times when people start complaining about their size and starts to go on a diet, when they are half my size. i wonder what went wrong with our perception of our bodies.
i guess it is only when we are secure on the inside then do we become assured of how we look and how we feel. we know who we are and we don't really bother about how people look at us. but along the way, we will still enjoy compliments from others.
for me, i'm alright with how i am. i am exceptionally disturbed by the recent spate whereby pple have been telling me that i lost weight. to a point, i got concerned as of how come i was losing so much weight and got a bit afraid of hearing such comments. won't want to lose anymore weight for sure and would try to put on one to two more.
how do i become secure in how i look is really knowing that i am a child of God.
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