Eat to Live

'She's starving on some diet fad, stupid woman. I only have to go do everything, right from chopping the vegetables onwards. She doesn't even have a maid ya.'


... I hear the disgust, the complaining, the anger. What I don't hear is any semblance of pity, a cursory realization that this woman can't help it. Do we blame people for being schizophrenic too? Is that really something they can control? 


Does it really have to be pointed out that it takes a certain level of mental disorder to take on all the chores when all you're eating for days on end is a bowl of fruits and some curd?


I'm sick of 'sane' people assuming that this is something that's so common sensical, the other person's willfully indulging in some passing whim. That sort of flippant stubbornness doesn't result in the manic energy you derive even when you're barely eating anything. It doesn't account for your exercising and walking and working and functioning on less calories than a one year old. 


Or do people realize this, and prefer taking the tone above? Is it simpler to dismiss the problem rather than taking the pains to actually figure out how deep rooted it is? Either ways, I hope that poor woman has some family that's more empathetic than the person I heard talking about her.