I know I’m going to get a scathing e-mail from Lady K about how I shouldn’t post blogs about my weight anymore, but this is kinda a little different. Today, I broke my Facebook pledge and went on Facebook. Three hours later, I was looking at pictures in a friend’s album when I saw it. The comment.
Before you can appreciate the comment, you need the back story. Let’s rewind to High School. When entering High School, I was friends with two Girls, let’s call them Girl B and Girl C (I’m Girl A). Through the wonderful world that is High School, it was determined by my group of friends very shortly into High School that Girl C was not “cool” enough to hang out with us, so Girl B and I avoided Girl C right up until the end of High School. After High School, I went away to school while Girl B stayed in our High School city and became friends with Girl C. Ok, you’re up to date.
So, Girl B is now having a baby and she posted pictures of herself from a High School class where we had fake baby (Remember those?! Mine died because I left it in my boyfriend’s car) and I’m in one of those pictures. Girl C commented “Oh, Miss A… Do you keep in touch?” and Girl B says “Yes! We’re still friends!”. Girl C then proceeds to go through Girl B’s friend list and find me (my last name has changed since High School). She then pervs through the 4 pictures of me and comments back on Girl B’s picture “Oh, I saw a picture of her on her wall. She’s bigger than she used to be!”
Can you believe it? Ugh, I then had to perv Girl C’s profile and am pleased to report the following:
- She works as a barista at Starbucks… And is almost 30
- She lives with her parents… And is almost 30
- She has pictures of herself posing in stripper clothes with ponytails… And she’s almost 30
- She is still wearing the same glasses (literally, same pair) she wore in High School
- Her eyebrows are painted on!
I win.
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Maybe if you recognized and understood that insecure females constantly seek to have the upper-hand by finding flaws in other girls (to make themselves feel better, i.e. pointing out your weight), and that said device DOESN’T actually make one feel better about themselves OR resolve their inner insecurities…you wouldn’t attempt to do the same back. Her publicly pointing out that you “are bigger” than you once were (let’s remember, most people are at their skinniest in high school, anyway, and rarely stay that same size after maturation) is her own problem. Don’t let pettiness be yours, too. You might as well have never left high school if you can’t leave the high school drama BEHIND. Also: you were the one who kicked her out of your little triad because she wasn’t “cool” enough. My guess is that seeing your current “larger” version allowed her to remove herself from her current “pathetic” life, and allowed her to stop pitying herself for a minute enough to feel like the insult you brought in her high school days has come full circle, and you got a little karma by being exactly what you ostracized her for: not appearing or being “cool/attractive” enough. Not many people were “popular” or “cool” in high school–I certainly wasn’t, nor did it matter, bc I surrounded myself with a few loyal, good people instead. And guess what the lack of superficiality lent me? I didn’t end up in the same self-absorbed, disappointing, pitfalls of a hard reality check like many of the “popular” kids did post-high school. It’s obvious neither of you have grown up at all to be able to get past the same damn issues. You both are haters. You should both move on and be better people, or at least one of you (YOU), because I believe you have the potential to at least see this and choose something better. At least YOU aren’t posing in stripper-esque pictures and think it’s appropriate or attractive! Gross!