New Delhi:
Whenever there has been any public outrage, trend or trolling, online has served to be the best of mediums for portraying the best side of you. Ubiquity of internet connectivity has made it possible and easy for our fingers to post what our minds dictate us, making BOLD statements and opinions.
Online presence of socialites, celebrities has bridged the gap between them and the common man. It is the place where the earthlings get praised, appreciated, criticised, trolled for their actions or even get attacked by each other for one’s physical appearances.
Recently, actor Fardeen Khan who has been away from movies for quite sometime, was shot to fame. Not for his acting prowess but something which has been imbibed and ingrained in us since childhood, probably – body shaming! When Khan had a field day last week, his fresh pictures went viral on social media. And guess what happened after that???
He was trolled for being overweight. Not only this, Fardeen was even tagged as an antonym for Adnan Sami. While others labelled him the next Bappi Lahiri in making. There seems to be a world of keen eyes who are always ready to target you for your flab or being thin or skinny.
But this is where Fardeen didn’t give up, he also took on the online trollers in the best possible way:
Khan writes: “Am I happy?? Emphatically!!!! In fact, living the happiest chapter thus far with lbs to show for it.”
Khan silenced his haters in the best way while thanking his fans for supporting him all this while.
Quite wonderful snarks have previously targeted other celebs too for either being too thin or overweight. This shows our obsession with rectification/modification in a super crazy way. In body shaming others we often tend to forget that human bodies are gift of god and we should rather focus on becoming a better person than competing on fleeting concepts of physical appearances.
And even if we choose to focus on the latter one too, woudnt it be great if we just accept each other in the very way we are? This world would be a better place if we instill happiness, positivity, togetherness in it. That will harness many a good things.
