What is wrong with us? If someone you loved was standing on the train tracks and a train was bearing down on them, the least you'd do would be to let them know, right? Or you'd take them by the hand and lead them away from the danger. Never mind the reason they were there in the first place, your prime concern would be to get them away from the danger.
Would you worry about offending their feelings? Worry that they'd not talk to you for a week? No way, you wouldn't care, you'd just want them safe and healthy.
So why...why...do we not say something to someone we work with, care about, love when they are their own train wreck? When their own behaviour is leading them directly into the path of the train?
I see people every day, who have led a lifestyle that is killing them as surely as standing in front of a speeding train, but nobody will tell them. They eat too much, exercise too little, allow themselves to become morbidly obese, but nobody has the guts to stop them and give them the truth.
Why don't we? For the most part we are afraid of offending them. So, instead of offending them for a minute, and encouraging them to change their life, which can so easily be done, we ignore the elephant in the room (don't pardon the pun, I meant that to offend) and ignore the fact that someone we love is obese.
Don't know how to bring the topic up? The next time you are together maybe ask them what weight they want to be when they die...you don't see too many morbidly obese 60 year olds. They're already dead.
Shocked? Irritated? Offended? Good!
Monday, February 7, 2011
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