A Student's Perspective on Weight Discrimination "You are what you eat". You've probably heard of this at some point in your life. Some may agree, some may not. But we all can't deny that how you eat effects our well-being someway or another. A great example of this would be obesity. Statistics shows that obesity is the leading cause of life threatening diseases such as stroke, clogged artery , etc. Besides causing diseases, you may also be subjugated to discrimination, specifically weight discrimination. But unlike other commonly known discrimination, I don't think weight discrimination is inherantly a bad thing. You see, the typical discrimination happens towards a minority of people who have a characteristic that you can't necessarily control. Some of the examples would be age, race, disabilities, gender and such. But in this case, your weight or your body fat ratio is in your full control. So as a student, we should use get in better shape, improve you mental health, and continue to strive for the better. To combat weight discrimination, we must tackle the problem head-on. One of the best proven ways to improve your body is to workout. And the optimal environment for that is the gym. A gym membership costs roughly Rp 300,000 a month, which is relatively cheap for changing your entire phisique. As a student, you could ask your parents to help fund your gym membership or you could save up money. Even if you still can't afford it, you could try different approaches for this, such as a home workout or calisthenics. But the truth is, buying a gym membership is just the tip of the iceberg of body improvement. The massive "wall" for most people is going to the gym routinely. Going when you don't feel like it and pushing yourself to the limit. This is what it takes to cross the giant wall of body improvement. This is what is it feels to have a rock hard discipline. To achieve great discipline, you need to commit in improving your mental health too. Along with achieving a good phisique, a good mental health mustn't be scoffed at too. Research shows that people who are overweight tend to be more depressed than people who are physically fit. This shows that there is some relation between your physical and mental condition. Now after your overcame your obesity, you mental health would have surely exponentially skyrocket. What should you do after this? You should improve your mental health even more! Why, might you ask? The truth is, a good and stable mental health is good and all, but you can step it up a notch and achieve full control of your mind. With this in hand, you will have unlimited motivation, and most importantly mental clarity like you have never seen before : clear as the sky and hard as a rock. This will be your key of success in lifeThen hoe could we achieve that? There are various practices you could do to level up your mental health : journaling, dopamine detox, and many more. But I believe one of the best ways to improve it is meditation. You sit straight and center your focus on a single thing, usually your breathing. It doesn't take a lot of time, but the benefits will surely come through eventually. After building the foundation of a good life , the final thing you need to do is pursue a purposeful and fulfilling life. You should find what is truly meaningful to you, whether it be business, music, or maybe even a significant other. These things will make your life worth living. Worth pushing to the limit and doing whatever it takes to achieve that thing. This is what is feel to have a sole purpose in your life. This will make you live your life to the fullest. The world is an unjust place. Only people who truly possess power have the position to do anything. This principle applies even down to the smaller hiearchies in school. The fat get bullied by the fit. Why fight on the losing side when you can switch sides? The main point I'm trying to make is, this essay is not meant to show you how to live in weight discrimination, but how to overcome it. On that note, we should strive for superior phisique, mental, and overall well-being. This will guarantee a pathway to success for you. " You take the blue pill - you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the read pill - you stay in Wonderland and I will show you how deep the rabbithole goes." How and why we should do it has already been clearly stated on my part. Now what's left is for you to decide your destiny. So which pill will you swallow, the blue pill or the red pill?