Now this is ridiculous on many levels. First, why would you put your child at risk for this type of surgery? Second, get off your couch and exercise. I am sick of an easy fix for everything in this country. What happened to the old American motto of work hard for what you get?
We're a coddled, overmedicated, overfed, overindulged, lazy society who thinks everything is owed to us and should be served on a silver platter. Holding some extra weight? Don't try to eat healthier, or exercise, exert some effort or some control over your appetite. Just go under the knife! Easy-peasy!
Aw, you went to college, and now have a lame entry-level job? Sure, have mom and dad support you while you live in a major urban area and drop cash on bottle service at clubs and cabs, so you can wear your $500 Manolos to work (that your parents also paid for).
You know, some of us still have to work, and work hard for things in our lives. I will never take for granted the weight I'm currently losing, on my own, through a combo of diet and exercise. I want to do it on my own. How much sweeter it will be when I've reached my goal. And it's hard. But life is.
And I've been living in the most expensive city in the country (and one of the most in the world), where I started on a $25,000 a year salary. Sure, I've run up credit card debt and have struggled every minute I've been here, even taking a part-time job and babysitting gigs. And I'm currently sick of being poor. But through actual hard work, and fighting for what's deservedly mine in my job, I've been promoted, and my salary has increased. It's so much better having earned it on my own merits. My parents would never let me starve, but they didn't have the means to pasome exorbitant rent for me, just so I could live in a hip neighborhood, or a doorman building, or a huge swanky loft.
I'm glad I at least have a reality check. I'm sick of people who don't. They're detrimental to society.
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You tell 'em, Connor! Please tell me that you saw that god-awful article in the Times a few weeks ago about those two self-centered twits who thought they were hot shit because their parents BARELY had to help them with their obnoxiously high rent in their obnoxious duplex apartment on the East Side...one of them is an assistant at S&S. Can you believe it? Sometimes I do believe that collectively, as a country, our youth are just getting dumber and dumber...
Darwinism. Are you willing to put YOUR child under the knife to teach them how to live a HEALTHY life?
Let's think here....
Go natural selection, go!
How is surgury going to change that child's/family's eating and exercise habits? Sure it changes their body, but it has to be a complete lifestyle change as well. And Heather, I am with you working my ass off to lose my weight as well and I celebrate each pound!
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