A Moment....

Bipolar Moments

I have been diagnosed as bipolar but don’t take the medicine, I pray.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with me, God made me this way.

From time to time I have a mood swing.

It could be about anything…

Just a bipolar incident…and now I have to vent…

My forgetfulness left me sitting for an hour outside a women’s clothing store that specializes in junior miss and plus size clothes. My sister-in law is the manager and I was with her when I realized I left my keys 30 minutes away so I had to sit and wait and observe. In the day and age that embraces plus size and the “real woman” I can say, not all of us if the perfect size 6, and who says size 6 is perfect anyways? Anyhow back to my observation, I think it is a conspiracy…a grocery store, fast food restaurant, and another sit down restaurant all nestled in close proximity to the clothing store. It was lunch hour and I watched several women on a Friday drive from the various food locations to store, mind you it is walking distance. There were more plus size ladies than junior misses this day. Now I myself, have been all over the BMI chart (body mass index), I am no expert. It bothered me how it seemed like a never-ending eat and buy clothes cycle. Why not a gym next door to encourage women to get healthy or BMI calculators posted in the dressing room? I do not hate on big girls, as I am one but I recognize the need to invest time into my body now, or pay for it with my health later. Even losing 5 or 10 pounds can increase your longevity. Small changes can do this, like parking far and walking extra steps to eat and shop, you don’t have to drive two feet to the next destination. Think of your health ladies, that is all I am saying, work a little harder at being the next size down, make small gradual changes and you will look and feel better! You don’t have to finish your lunch, eat slower, pass on the soda, just say no to SUPER SIZE, that 50 cents for extra fries just made your shirt also cost $2 more, and who has time to shoot insulin or take pills? It is a fact a lot of illnesses can be controlled with diet and exercise, true enough there is more to love, but I’d rather love you for a longer time!

Connie Sheeley