(Satire)
Weak…Oh Really!!!
“To have a successful life you have to work
hard and for that you must take healthy diet. You are really weak.” This is
what an interviewer recommended me during my interview for a PG program.
To which I replied, “I am thin, not weak”. This
made the interviewer smile.
I don’t understand why people use these two
words interchangeably. They are not synonymous. As per the Oxford dictionary,
meaning of the word weak is ‘lacking physical strength and energy’ and that
of thin is ‘having little fat on the body’.
Whenever somebody meets me, the first sentence
used by the person is ‘tum bahut kamzor ho gai ho’ (you have become
weak).
My walking pace is more than the average
walking pace of an Indian woman. I can survive in the chilly winter of Delhi
and I can also bear the harsh summer. Even if I think hard I cannot recall when
I have visited the doctor for the last time. I never had a body check-up done because
it was not ever recommended by any doctor.
During the stormy season people recommend me
not to go out because I might fly. I wish I could experience that.
The concerned society even asks me, “Do you
take something to get rid of this weakness?” to which I reply, “No…not even the
tension”.
Society, please provide me the scale used by
you to measure my ‘strength’; I want to check it myself.
There is no social scale for measuring of weakness; however there is socio-psychological scale of weakness which is based on physical appearance of man / women. According to science, Body-Mass Index is perfect measurement of Health status, if BMI fit in the scale of healthy range, then he / she is healthy. In view of the above scales ...... prima-facie you are soundly fit.
ReplyDeleteI am sure your interviewer must be from another planet. He didn't know about Mahatma and It's the Software that matters not the Hardware.
ReplyDelete😂😂😂 awesome reply there ("...not even tension")
ReplyDeleteGood one Arjumand...!