write a description about an act of bravery that you or your family member or anyone of your friends may have shown at some stage in your life
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There was a girl in my class when I was in Class III. Unlike me who had bunch of friends and who used to be the most mischievous girl of the class, she used to remain alone. She didn’t have friends (even she was very good in maths) and she used to sit at the last bench inspite of coming very early to the class. You know why? Because of us. All of my other classmates (including me) used to tease her because she was fat. (Hey, please don’t judge me. I was just a kid)
Not only my classmates, sometimes our teachers also used to crack joke on her to make others laugh when the class used to be boring.
In the starting year of our school she used to give auditions for our cultural fest but she was always rejected. After sometime she stopped coming to auditions and attending those fest because may be she had known the reason of not being selected as her body was not perfect.
I still remember the rehearsals of the last annual function of ours. We were practicing in our auditorium. I was the anchor and was checking the list of participants when I saw her name written in the list of solo dance participants. I couldn’t believe she was going to dance. (To be honest I laughed in my heart)
When she came for the rehearsal, every other students sitting there started humiliating her and commenting over her.
“aie moti stage todegi kya?” (hey you fat girl, you gonna break the stage)
“arey ye khud phat jaayegi dance karegi toh” (she will burst if she will dance) and everyone was laughing. She kept standing there for a while and then ran away crying.
I really felt bad seeing her crying for the first time. Something broke inside me when she left but I didn’t stop them from humiliating her (may be I didn’t want to lose my friendship).
She didn’t come to practice after that.
Finally our annual function came and after all the programme I was shocked when my teacher asked me to announce her name for the solo dance.
I wanted to tell my teacher about the humiliation she faced while our practice and to give her reason for not calling her as she won’t be able to perform. But I didn’t say a single word and called her name.
She was standing on the stage after few minutes. I could see her cheeks flushing and may be I could feel her heartbeat inside me which was pounding so hardly that it could be heard by others. I could hear the giggling and comments of my classmates standing backstage. Every student sitting there was laughing. And laughter kept growing louder untill my teacher came and warned them to keep quiet and told her to dance.
She danced really amazingly. In spite of having heavy body she was so flexible and flowing like water. (I could see the reflection of Saroj Khan in her).
At that moment she was the bravest girl around me. This might not be easy for her. She might had fear too but she had the courage to move forward so strongly in spite of the fear to be humiliated again. She was an inspiration to me at that point of time. She taught me that, your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.
I was shattered to my own self to be a part of society where we tend to judge beauty of a person by their waistline, where beauty meets brain but brain never meets with beauty because the latter one is always millions of notch higher.
People just don’t simply decide to hate their bodies, its us who teach them to.
Is fat really the worst thing a human being can be? Is fat worse than vindictive, jealous, shallow, vain, evil or cruel? Not to me anymore.
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