Ila Garg

Drama

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Ila Garg

Drama

Odd One Out

Odd One Out

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Since teenage, I was used to people mocking me for my weight, my height and skin tone.. I was used to all the ridicule dumped upon me for the way I looked. Usually 'Fat', 'Thick skinned' and 'Ugly' were the common analogies thrown at me which sometimes turned to 'Chubby' and 'Black beauty' by less unpleasant people. But they all simultaneously pointed towards the fact that I was the 'Odd one out', the weird one. I was never able to wear short dresses because I was 'Carrying that extra weight' than required for being socially accepted into such dresses and therefore I was always the cute one (again by the less unpleasant people) and never the beautiful one. My personality and also my confidence was hidden deep beneath my shreds and layers of fat covering my body which forbid people to see what lies inside. I never went to parties, never attended concerts and avoided beaches because most of these places welcomed people with skimpy dresses of which I was terrified. All my deepest insecurities cradled me day and night and inhibited me to do anything I desired. How I wish today that the concept of 'Body Shaming' was introduced in that era. 


But that one day, when the sun shone brighter and the sky was much clearer, HE CAME. He came and changed everything I disliked about myself. He came and I not only fell in love with him but I fell in love with myself, my own body which I loathed to the core. I started loving my chubby cheeks which he pulled so gently, my fat legs which he found sexy and my plump hands which he held so tightly. Like a ray of sunshine, he penetrated my deepest inhibitions, broke apart all my fears as if they never existed. I got the courage to do what I always wanted to do. Public Speaking. A fleet which I thought was impossible for a human who looked gruesome like me. But whenever I had self doubts, he looked at me in ways which made my legs shaky and heart all mushy. I FELT BEAUTIFUL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE. Today, I am a confident young woman who has shredded all her fears, if not the layers of fat still deeply embedded. I am still the cute one but also the beautiful one. I am still not able to wear all those short dresses but I no longer feel the need to. I look beautiful in whatever I wear. I am still the 'Odd one out', but this time, the successful one. I attend all the parties now and beaches and concerts because I still have his hand in mine and his eyes making my heart melt in the puddle of love. 

He is my best friend with whom I also share a surname.


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