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| Okay... Now what am I supposed to say? |
Honestly, I wasn't sure how to respond to that so I returned her quizzical look and brushed it off with a joke, "Yeah, that's why I'm eating such healthy lunches every day!"
You see, I have been bringing my own lunches for some time now, more than 6 months actually. Typically, it consists of 2 or 3 of the following: broccoli, corn, chickpeas, hard-boiled eggs, carrots or capsicums.
I chop a week's worth into bite-sized pieces on Sunday, then take the entire lot to work on Monday. Every day I'll take a portion out, microwave it, and add a dashing of some dressing (by dash I mean about a teaspoonful). Needless to say, this takes quite a bit of self-control. So imagine how I felt when I received the remark on weight.
It stung like a bee, not deadly, but enough to leave a mark.
Said colleague is small and petite, with a raging metabolism that allows her to devour food every 3 hours without putting on weight. I do not think that she was being intentionally mean, it seemed more like carelessness. A thoughtless remark that was tossed out like one would toss out a piece of lint.
It made me wonder, what if she had been born with the same kind of metabolism rate as I (dismally low) or with a larger stature, would she have thought twice before making that remark? Or even made it at all?
Being one of the smartest species on earth, humans are surprisingly blind to our counterparts' feelings sometimes, We so often see things only from our own perspectives that we become unable to understand otherwise.
This incident reminds me to reserve judgement, to be kinder with my remarks.
Because we never know what the other person's shoes feel like.
