Why do we want to become health conscious when we know we are losing on it? I did not realise the importance of growing healthy until few years back. May be family upbringing, where my mom said, you should eat a lot and work a lot. Marwari culture, where everything is doused with desi ghee and kitchen is full of sweets. When you do not look at them you are told, see at this tender age you cannot avoid eating things, you should eat everything. So we were never told the benefits of staying healthy and looking afters elf, where we were always told that every one else is the priority. When I started getting health conscious and taking care of myself, my mom was so much against it, she said, whats the point in reducing weight, you will put on again, today’s generation does not eat properly and then does not have stamina, for them eating properly is eating ghee not healthy. I am glad…apart from fluctuation of 1-2 kilos, I have been able to maintain the things now and which has made every one to stop commenting also.
This was my example, now I see my sister in laws, where they are inculcating health consciousness in their kids from the beginning. They are growing as active and healthy individuals. Who are aware of their priorities and they know what is good for them or not. I would prefer same thing, instead of freaking out later, you should grow up healthy and parents will always have big contribution in that. In Bangalore someone has opened a Gym for kids, where things sound little obsessive, but looking at the demand, it shows, how conscious people are becoming about health and it is very good. Why do people criticise a good initiative beats me. May be they just cannot see that people are taking care of themselves and they were brought up with the philanthrophist ideology that you come last and everyone else comes first. However, it is wrong, if you want to be happy and you want to make others to be happy, you should be happy first. If you lack something, you cannot give to others and same is happiness. And if you are not healthy, you cannot be happy. So you should grow up healthy so that you stay healthy.
