Gym Class Heroes

Just like the previous summer, I made the decision to re-join the gym that is very close to my house. I was always the sporty kind of girl during my school years, I was a Gymnastic and was inrolled in the soccer team. But during high school years and with the huge amount of studies I had to do, this interest slowly faded away, and last year I discovered that I have lost some of the flexibility I had and wasn't able to perform some of my signature moves. I decided to gain back those moves by joining the gym.

I'm not obese in any way, hell I'm not even Fat in fact people around me think that i can easily fall in the skinny category (not braging about it just explaining for the thought ahead). My only intention for going to the gym was to be fit, but that wasn't the case when I reached there. At the entrance there was this image of this super skinny girl with slogan on it reading be slim, step inside the gym, and again you are surrounded by these extremely waifish ladies that are trapped inside the walls through a big giant poster.

As I mentioned I'm more of a skinny type and I was depressed by seeing these images when in fact they are there at first place to serve as a means of inspiration for women to work out even harder. At that point I started wondering about the feelings of other women who have more havier bodies, How do these ladies feel when looking at these pictures?....Isn't it too harsh to be bombarded by images like these from all over the place??...I know this is what the current standard of beauty is but at least the gym should've opted to promote a little more healthier image of women....the internet and television are already doing enough to promote this trend, so can't the gym just stay out of it please??

As I was leaving the place for another hard day at the gym...I took one last look at these ladies who are working even harder and enduring all the pain heroicly simply to look like the girl they're looking at inside the poster and fid-in the current criteria for being a woman...Gone are the days when a healthier looking woman was the real appeal because that meant she comes from a rich household (pre-Islamic eras) and say hello to the era of girls that look like they are starving and are in a desperate need of a sandwich...