For the most part, I am a pretty laid back person, I would call myself accepting. Unless it directly affects me, I don’t care what you do. Let me correct that, I do care what you do. But as long as you think that’s what’s going to make you happy, I will support it or at least not say anything, it’s the way things go, and I find trying to change people too much when they don’t want to change only creates unnecessary problems. Plus I think caring about someone means taking them and hoping you can help them improve, but only as they are ready. This being said, I have found that in large part, those family members and friends who are obese affect me. When they have health problems, when I’m the one cleaning up the pieces because something happened that hurt their feelings in relation to their obesity, when they’re sitting their complaining about how they want to lose weight, that directly affects me, and it drives me a little bit nuts. Now the whole health complications, that affects everybody. It’s not just those suffering from it, but family members. I’m starting to sound like a cigarette commercial. But in so many ways, while many people I know of want to say this is my life and all that, and it is, it isn’t just your life. So in many ways, shape up, suck it up, and think about the whole picture.
