In Continuum.

Anorexia

Or "Anorexia Nervosa",refers to (According to Dictionary.com),"Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease".Simply speaking,you know those people you see in school or at your workplace,starving themselves during lunchbreaks or visiting the bathroom after every meal,sticking a pen or finger down their throats to puke whatever that ate out,those are the people with Anorexia.When you are never thin enough,when you are never skinny enough,when you are never beautiful enough.

I dont think we should blame the media for this,for the way youngsters are sticking pen down their throats like that.You dont see runway models or actresses waving signs that say "Skin and Bone is Cool!",or Paris Hilton's new single being "Deep Throat with a 2B Pencil"(Of course,her own single "Stars Are Blind" is equally atrocious.I have the tendency to add the line "So Shut Up Swine" in brackets afterwards).Besides,in Paris Hilton's case it wouldnt be a pencil,but a penis.The reason why i am mentioning that slut is of course,because i saw posters promoting her album all along Orchard today.Rows and rows of them hanging from posts outside of Wisma Atria,all the way down to the crossings before HMV.Yeah,it was a horrific sight.I think if one of those War of the Worlds alien ships erupted in the middle of Scotts Road,people wouldnt even noticed them.

Besides that,i saw them all.Hordes of them,filling the streets with themselves.Well,filling the streets really is an understatement.After all,there really isnt anything left to fill anything.Skin and bones,people suffering from anorexia everywhere.I bumped into a girl,and i thought i bumped into some life-sized standee or something.It felt weightless,almost skeletal,and i almost forgot to apologize.

Really,i dont see how being skin and bone is,in any way,beautiful.I remember back in my school days,one fine afternoon in the lecture theatre before a class started,a girl from another class was hollering to her friends about her fat she was.She wasnt fat,really.In fact,if she was borned about twenty years earlier,she wouldve been able to get a part in Michael Jackson's Thriller video.She was zombie like,with nothing but sticks sticking out of her uniform.The breasts didnt help either,hiding beneath her uniform,weeping for the pathetic state of the body.But still,she thought she was fat.Fat.Right.Perhaps she puked her brain out during one of her deep throats with a pen too.

I dont see how being THAT thin is in any way,beautiful."Models are like that!",people say.But i think it is all about proportions.I always say,that a person is only fat when he or she is out of proportions.You know,like when everything looks bloated and out of shape.Sure,Jonathan from my camo is overweight.But he is proportionate,and the names calling are just for the kick of it.

I think fat people are in general,happier than people with anorexia.While walking to the bus stop i saw a woman with her caucasian boyfriend.She was...well,big.Out of proportions,like i said.But she didnt care too much of the way her extra flesh were hanging out the sides of her tube.She doesnt try to hide it,or puke everything she just ate out.She is who she is,and at that moment i felt she was in so many ways,more beautiful than those skeletal beings i saw.

With their clothes hanging from their bony shoulders,like starved Rwanda kids.Their collar bones were like wings,threatening to take off when the wind blows.I saw their ribs,like ladders lining on either side of their chests,and legs thinner than my pinky.I swear,if i tried popping one of those arms,they are going to come off like Barbie Dolls'.Just...well,it was like a scene from a very bad nightmare.It was a sign,telling me that if i continue starving myself in camp and outfield i am going to end up like that.

So gulp,as much spit as possible ladies and gentlemen.Because this is real,zombies are roaming our world.The dawn of the dead,the land of the anorexic people.But fear not,i dont suppose they are going to feast on your flesh,or any meat,anytime soon.Just sharing plain o'oxygen,that's all.