The following has been going around Facebook today. It appears to have been written by a Facebook user named Delphine Fieberg, and as of this writing it has been shared more than one hundred-thousand times. It is copied here verbatim, with no commentary from us beyond this introduction, with all formatting left intact and no attention paid to typographical, grammatical or punctuation errors, if any. Also, we have no way of accounting for the accuracy of anything that is written below, but even assuming that it is a total work of fiction, it is something that we feel needs to be read. We hope that you enjoy it as much as we have.
A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was "This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?"
The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way:
"Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.
They entertain like crazy with dolphins and eat lots of prawns. They swim all day and travel to fantastic places like Patagonia, the Barents Sea or the coral reefs of Polynesia.
They sing incredibly well and sometimes even are on cds. They are impressive and dearly loved animals, which everyone defend and admires.
Mermaids do not exist.
But if they existed, they would line up to see a psychologist because of a problem of split personality: woman or fish?
They would have no sex life and could not bear children.
Yes, they would be lovely, but lonely and sad.
And, who wants a girl that smells like fish by his side?
Without a doubt, I'd rather be a whale.
At a time when the media tells us that only thin is beautiful, I prefer to eat ice cream with my kids, to have dinner with my husband, to eat and drink and have fun with my friends.
We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn't enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.
We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.
Every time I see my curves in the mirror, I tell myself: "How amazing am I ?! "
(The girl on the picture is French model Tara Lynn)
2 comments:
I have seen this on facebook too, and have commented there. True or not, this needs to be said - thanks for posting here.
Fantastic!
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