I'm sure a lot of you lovely people have had a similar experience.
My entire life, I was told at every life event, I was going to get fat.
"Just wait until you get out of highschool and stop doing year round sports, you'll go to college and get fat. Freshman 15."
Nope.
"Later, in college when it starts getting harder and stressful you'll put on weight."
Still nope.
"Now that you've graduated, when you get a real job and real stress you'll start to put on pounds."
Got a "real" job. Still not fat.
"Once you start a family and don't have time to workout, that's when it'll hit ya."
My kids 7.
"Now that you're over the hill, your metabolism is going to crash and there's no avoiding it."
Still got the same measurements as I did in college.
"Oh, well, erm... you're just one of the lucky ones."
What? No. This is not by chance. It's not juneticks, nor metabolism, and definitely not luck.
Point to flat toned stomach, greying body hair and all.
This was not an accident. My wife and I earned the bodies we have. It's your own fat faults you let yourselves use every excuse to join the subspecies. Take some goddamned responsibility.
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[–] totalitarianism 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I think it depends. My family is technically wealthy, but not "one percent" wealthy. I'm just hypothesizing, but I feel like that makes a difference somehow. The thing is, my mother grew up POOR-- as in, nine kids in a Catholic family in Detroit poor-- and my father is a Marine. They didn't become wealthy until after they'd experienced many trials and hardships in their life, and they passed down the work ethic and values onto my sibling and I. I didn't start working until I was probably 17 (my sibling started at 13 I think), but the thing is, my first "job" was as an artist, which I got paid enough to sustain myself, and is still my profession to this day. It is NOT easy to make it as an artist. Most artists never make enough off their work to survive without another job. But I feel like I can really say it isn't some natural "talent" I have that allows me to live like this, it's the sheer hard work and sacrifice I was taught that makes this successful for me.