Expository Essay

Topic: It is better to be fat and jolly than thin and miserable. What are your views on this?

“Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms” I do agree with the fact that being fat and jolly is being better than skinny and miserable. Being fat and jolly simply means, one is happy in what he does, while being skinny and miserable means that one is always pessimistic and views everything in a negative light. Also, miserable people are more prone to suicide.

Being either fat or skinny could both lead to health diseases, however, being fat gives you a chance of getting more diseases. The only difference if both a fat and jolly person as compared to a skinny and miserable person who both gets the same disease is their attitude. This would also affect the outcome of whether that person is able to combat the disease. By being jolly and optimistic, that person would thus, try to see everything positively, and thus lead his life in a better manner until he recovers as compared to that of a miserable person who would just moan over it, and lead his life in a miserable manner, hurting everyone around him.

Next, although a person who is slim and miserable might be healthier than that of a person who is fat and jolly, however, by being fat and jolly, one would be able to slim down, and this would then lead him to feel happy and have a sense of accomplishment. However, if one is slim and miserable, nothing would actually cheer him up, and if one wants to grow, one might choose to eat more per meal. However, because of a miserable mood, that person might just vomit everything, thus leading to a vicious cycle repeating itself.

In this world, there are many things that are meant to be enjoyed, and whether one is able to enjoy all these depends on his mood. For a fat and jolly person, he would be able to soak it all in, and enjoy himself thoroughly, just like others. However, for a slim and miserable person, he would just feel dejected and rejected as he is unable to enjoy it like what the people around him are doing. This shows that the difference between being fat and slim, is just the attitude of the person.

By being slim and miserable, that person would be less likely to accept failure, and if that person actually failed at something, it would lead to that person, hurting himself, or doing silly things like cutting oneself, because that person only sees that he has failed, however, if it is a fat and jolly person who failed, the situation would be different. A fat and jolly person would then see him failing as a lesson which he can learn from, and then, avoid making the same mistakes again in the future, and this will also make that person more likely to be successful.

Life is short, we should enjoy it and live through it by being jolly and happy.

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