hehehe I guess if you are smartenough to log in then you are smart enough to post in the smart forum!
the first post cracked me up!!!
5 out of 6 of my university's career counselors are obese, which is the first thing I noticed about them when I went in for some career counselling.
They told me a lot of the things I read in these forums, "reach for the stars", "go with what you like, go with your passions". O.K, not really bad advice, BUT, coming from a morbidly obese person, I just couldn't respect the advice as a "sage advice".
This pattern is familar. Those who can't seem to solve their own problems, attempt to solve other people's problems, attempt to tell other people how to live. Was it the counselor's "passion" to become a counselor, or was simply a psychological issue, their deep-seated need to feel like they are O.K, perhaps the thinking that made them counselors is that if they achieve a position where they advise other people, then logically they themselves must be O.K.
Personal example is very very important to me. Obesity, for me, seems to indicate something very psychologically troubling in the other person, it is an extreme of behavior, of eating.
That said, I wish people, even on an online forum, gave some physical, mental, social, economic, and philosophical description of themselves. I will do this personally whenever I post any kind of advice from now on, so people know exactly how to judge the merits of my advice. If the advice is not original, I will state the source.
(I have nothing against obese people, I simply wanted to point out the importance of personal example, it is not "wrong" to be obese, I don't think that).
Anyway, is it wrong for me to judge these counselors so negatively? The whole counseling session was just such an ardous, painful experience, I absolutely could not respect anything these people said. I couldn't really say "well, all your advice on living and working seems good, but do you realize that you are obese?".
For the sake of disclosure: I have NEVER been called a jerk. I do realize I sound like one in this post.
seems to me that this jerk is a little two faced its ok to be "MORBIDLY OBESE" just lose weight and then maybe I will respect your advice!
IS that not how that post boiled down to or is it just the fact that I am MORBEDLY FAT and that has clouded my fatted brain cells?
Doesnt that just make you want to set your food right down on he tiny little...
Oh look A TWINKY.... Oh Sorry Got to Go get fatter now bye!!!
