Body Issue, Hills and Life

  If you ever know me in person, you will know that I eat like a pig. Not only the portion of my meals are always in large size, I eat more than 3 meals a day too, maybe 6 at maximum. This habit got worsen whenever I under pressure from school assignment and test. All of these lead to an inevitable situation, my body weight is increasing rapidly. I don't realize it until recently some of my friends tell me I am getting fatter. At first I guard up myself and go defensive to deny their accusation, then I blame it on my friends who always ask me out for supper in mamak stall, but I accept this reality as I look at my body in front of the mirror and there is a lumpy extra meat around my waist. This is what I see as I tend to exaggerate everything in my life.
  Behold...

  Still hot and sexy right? Maybe not...
  So not only I have to deal with exam pressure, I need to spend times to plan some exercise sections from my hectic lifestyle to slim down my body fat. This make me want to buy more fast-food meals from McDonald to calm my nerve.

  Yummy food is so therapeutic...delicious.
  So, I drag myself out of my bed early in the morning to go for a mountain walk 4 times a week. This is the cheapest way to lose weight as I don't think sign a membership card in gym club is the only way to go. The mountain is more like a hill with a part of it is under development to transform into urban house area, let hope they don't destroy it all. The trees are lushly grown all around the place and habituated by the monkeys. The area is close to my home, so this is easy for me to go there.

  One day, I was walking on the path to mountain as usual, there was a group of teenagers arriving at the same time. There were here to plant trees for forest recovery and they were also preparing themselves for SPM. Then I told them what they did was amazing as people these days only care for themselves, but they were willing to give back to society. They said it was better to be outside to do something else instead of lock themselves up in the room to study or play with smartphone. I waved toward them and return to my home.
 
  Now, as I rewind this conversation, I find there are quite a few interesting guides to shade some lights to my weight problem and my life too. I lock myself up and isolate from the outside world when I deal with problem in my life as I believe no one can save me. But I am wrong, helps are everywhere and you just need to reach out. If I do not go for mountain climbing, I would never meet with those high school students to have such meaningful conversation(sort of). I can handle stress better as I go for mountain walk help me release the stress. Although I still sort of overweight but I am optimistic for my future that my study and body are under my control and no one can take my fighting spirit  away from me. This hiking activity will continue to stick in my life for a very long time.

  The conversation with the teenagers have inspire me a lot with their words of wisdom and encouragement. They are cherishing every moment of their youth to do something good to the world. I find that fascinating consider now most of the teenagers are k-pop obsessive fans, most of the time they are either watching Korean drama or stalking Korean stars whenever they can. They bring a lot of inspiration to my life as I need to care for the environment more. I recycle as much as I can and I use both side of the paper to draw and write. In an unusual place, young minds trump to the top and bring light to an old soul like me. I am definitely inspired by the earth loving message and won't hold prejudice toward teenager as a whole, maybe a few.

*mind blown*