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        The urge to reduce to look like a reed and not a Roman column of architecture of ancient times is spreading among the youth and particularly among the teenage girls.  They had heard the story that a marriage of a slim girl was stopped because a mischievous fellow told the potential groom that the girl’s corpulent mother was also slim at her marriage and the boy took to his heels in fright.

        The keenness now for girls is to emulate the contenders at the catwalk who are thin and seem to be blown down their path by a whiff of wind.
Indeed they do everything to shed the embarrassing calories, avoiding sweets like poison, torturing their frames at the gyms and starving pitiably.

        Yet their genes it should be that arbitrate against them. Striving even their very best, they receive only threats from the weighing machine. They scan the newspapers for advertisements on how to reduce and take notes on it from the advice tendered in health programmes on television channels.

        They compare notes and yet they see no relief. Only the wise fraction of such girls abandon the effort and remain resigned to their destiny.
The jokes against the obese are equally many among boys. Their middle expands faster than the rest of the body causing despair.

        The middle-aged bureaucrat may not care but his wife does, putting him to the necessity of stealing sweets from the cupboard at midnight only to be caught by her.
They are forced to take exercises which do not help. When their doctor tells them that they could develop cardiac problems, they feel helpless.

        Alas, they do not seek advice from wiser people who could tell them that fatness is proof of innocence  and broadmindedness.

    They are not told that wisdom consists in enjoying good food instead of losing all the charm of life by unhelpful abstinence. An elephant cannot become a mouse .