Food for Thought. Erase Stigma on physical appearance

Many a times in my life till now, I have faced 'funny comments', 'taunts', 'remarks' whatever you want to name it on my physical appearance especially on my height.?According to the society I am too short at 4'9 and can't do anything or may have to 'look up ' as in literally to talk to people who are subsequently taller than me just in form of comparison.?

This article is not to lament or to crib about what people have said and how I felt or what I did to come out of it.

Its about to give this society a perspective which no one would have thought before.

We are well aware that our body structure,?our looks, our health, our voice, skin colour etc is all part of genes and what genes we inherit.

So now after giving this a lot of thought I have come to a conclusion that society has problems with whether you are fat, thin, tall?short, any type of hair, or type of looks and so on. So my thought is if my genes have given me this body structure which I am grateful for but as per society they are not right then that means indirectly society is also saying that my parents genes are incorrect, their ancestors genes are incorrect and so on.

So, it means indirectly every gene on this planet is incorrect . Isnt it? Every fat genes is incorrect, every thin gene is incorrect, every tall or short or any other kind of genes is incorrect, every silky hair, curly hair , blue eyes, brown eyes, golden hair, black hair etc etc is incorrect right? Except the one's that win Miss Universe or Miss World competitions based on human definition of beauty isn't it?\

And doesn't it also mean that its a disrespect to the creator who has created us.

Then my question to the society is, please let me know what according to you is a correct or a perfect gene?

And if you have the definition of it then go beyond the creator and create it.

I wonder where our society is heading with these fake ideas of beauty and looks especially 'fakely inspired' by 'Miss World' and 'Miss Universe', or 'Mr World ' ,Bollywood, Hollywood, and just putting an unending pressure on humans to look in a certain way.

Is this really what we want for our future society?

When will we realize the importance of being a human and stop focusing so much on looks?

And when will the Bollywood or the make up industry will stop making us feel that we aren't perfect? Or we need to be slim, or body builders or something else?

When will we stop following these trends blindly?

Please understand that, beauty lies in wisdom and the knowledge that one possesses.

Honestly, think if you want to create a society where every other person gets taunted for the way they look or if any physical disability they have maybe by birth or by accident,

Or create a society of acceptance ,love and kindness and stop believing in fake standards of Miss World, Miss Universe or Mr World or Competition of Body Builders. (Sadly in serials we are showing Gods also as Body Builders)

Many people unknowingly get pulled into it due to peer pressure. Why soooo much fad to be like someone else?

Why not be happy in what you are and how you look? And not follow the fake beauty standards and stop judging each other?

Our bodies are soo miraculous and every species is so unique and wonderful perfectly curated by the universe why can't we accept that as it is? What's stopping us from doing that? (Slowly in future we will have beauty standars for birds, animals, sea life or any other kind of specie and perform plastic surgery on them also when they will not fit in those definition of beauty isn't it? Technology is progressing after all and even medical science with genetic science in boom and all..)

What kind of society will we create with this kind of thinking, think about it. No one will be able to accept each other the way they look and we all will keep on judging each other and one may not be able to love oneself and go in self blame or blame the genes or the creator and will develop self esteem issues and then struggle equally mentally and emotionally to come out of it.

Do we really want that for the upcoming generations? Or be the change and be wise, inclusive, and unconditionally acceptable and be awed at the miracle that each one of us are?

Or is this miracle only when one sees a new born and then the child gets swamped in the societal judgemental parameters on looks?

Think about it where are we heading and how to bring about the change and believe in the magnificence of one's being instead of looks

By Prutha Dalal...