Oh, you are so beautiful!
Posted October 7, 2008
on:- In: Anger | Anguish | Fiction | Food for thought | Friendship | Life | Love | Marriage | Nostalgia | Relationship
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Ritu opened the drawer fifth time since morning and sighed again. A long, big sigh!! She remembered her neighbour’s comments and she backed off. Her eyes glistened. She knew she was over reacting but she couldn’t help but feel down.
She was the most beautiful girl of her batch when she was in college. And her beauty was even more endearing for she was totally oblivious to the fact that she stole a lot many hearts on the campus when she smiled and jerked her head back to keep her hair in place. Not surprisingly, she was the most sought after girl!
When she got “attached” to Kartik a lot of alcohol flowed in the boy’s hostel…
After 5 years of marriage to Kartik and a baby later now when she looked at in the mirror she couldn’t recognize herself. Well, almost!! She has put on at least 15 Kgs post delivery! She still looked charming and beautiful with that sweet smile and cherubic face. It was just that she had filled up a bit on her curves.
She had become a woman!
But every now and then somebody would comment on how she used to look in her college days and how she has changed now. Most of the time she would just smile but sometimes she felt bad, sometimes she felt enraged and sometimes she went into depression.
Kartik was always on her side. If he was around he would shoot his favourite dialogue,
“If you want a wife, your children’s mother, a best friend, a professional, a girl-friend, a cook; all wrapped into one and still expect her to be toothpick thin then probably you are asking for too much from a human being!”
But it was not always possible to make others understand how one feels when they talk without thinking.
Today was one such day. Ritu loved chocolates and she was gifted one by her best friend today. As she was about to open it, her nosy neighbour came and commented on how much weight she has put on and how it is not good for her to have chocolates and other high calorie food! She pushed the chocolate in the drawer but couldn’t push the thoughts which were rummaging through her mind!
“Was it her fault that she was genetically prone to put on weight?
Was it her fault that she was suffering from Hypothyroidism?
Was it her fault that even after taking regular treatment she was unable to shed weight?
Was it her fault that she hardly got time to exercise on a regular basis from her multiple duties of being a wife, a mother and a working professional?
Was it her fault that she could not diet as she needed those calories to keep her going?
Was it her fault that Indian females were made to be a bit voluptuous compared to their western and eastern counterparts?
Was it her fault that media was wrongly portraying toothpick thin models and showing that was the way Indian ladies are suppose to look?”
As she stood in front of her drawer, looking at her bar of chocolate longingly, warmth enveloped her from behind. Kartik had come home early with a gift for her – a beautiful skirt and a T-shirt from the “All size” store… He knew she would look beautiful, as always, in those floral clothes!
72 Responses to "Oh, you are so beautiful!"
Nice one !! 🙂
You know it is very easy to tell someone else to do diet/exercise/yoga/parhej as long as you can hog all !! 😐
A good health is more important than anything else.
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I admire Kartik as much as I do Ritu ..
Husbands these days want zero-size figure wives even if they are suffering from hyper obesity and their tummy is on the verge of turning into a tea stand ..
I hate such husbands who dont care of their health but will not miss a single opportunity to taunt or to insult or to humiliate their wives for their bodies ..
All in all, a good story .. a great relationship u hv shown .. Learning experience for every married couple and for the going-to-be married couples too ..
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That reminded me mu hubby’s comment when i HAD put on weight. He said, ” I will have more of you to love…”
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Aha!!! If you take the kiddo part out this looks like my story 🙂
Though I can not control the food part the way I want to (am too much of a foodie :D) I have joined aerobics and am enjoying it 🙂
Lovely -2 story and so very true to times…I to believe that we should try to stay fit, weight kam ho ya na ho yeh baad ki baat hai…right???
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@Sakhi:
** I am sure your wife is proud of you! I sincerely think so! **
I’m blushing !! .. U hv to ask that to my wife though !! .. I’m trying my best to be a perfect husband ..
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I don’t understand why ppl give so much importance to the way they look.. she should have realised Kartik married her for the person dat she was, and not for how she looked from the outside..
all of us are gonna grow old one day.. no matter how much we try to look young,fit and beautiful.. no one can defy nature.. we should rather concentrate more on being good human beings than worry about being over-weight or ugly !
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thats a nice story how a girl feels when after marriage and also the questions thrown before the readers 🙂
But now-a-days looking good is given so much importance thats makes the people to go through extreme of dieting.
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Size zero models are only good to drool on TV or in movie halls… Indian khate peete ghar ki ladkis are best 😀
That’s a perfect Indian family you’ve portrayed.
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Awww…that was one sweet story. Well, I get paranoid when I put on weight (there are reasons for that), but I do not want a slim wife either. Slim is boring !!!
@ Anu :
Thats so sweet of your hubby!
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hey nice story…but if one has to do something the onus should on thyself rather than blaming the situation..no one has time to exercise ..ons has to make time for that!!!
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liked the plot…
something which is very common…
but so understanding husbands are rare i guess…!!
🙂
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kuchh to log kahenge … logon ka kaam hai kehna 🙂
nice story … but the disease/syndrome angle could have been done without. the other reasons are more than enough 😛
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Nice story… but why does she have to look good at all ages? People have different responsibilities at different stages of life… Looks maybe important in a particular young stage of life, but sticking on to it and thinking that it is the most important thing throughout life – is a bit silly. Except if being slim is considered being healthy. But I do not figure that attitude with all the people who were commenting around her. And if she is taking the comments seriously, she also feels the same deep inside. It is very important for people to adapt to different roles and responsibilities as they move on in life. Both for men and women. Why does she even have to bother about all the comments?
Destination Infinity
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1 | Reema
October 7, 2008 at 4:28 pm
ek kaan se sunne ka dusre se nikaalne ka!! when the couple is happy and when she is trying her best then let the nosy neighbors go to hell. Anyway she should do weight control not for people or even her husband but for her own health.
Good story!
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