In today's society we hear the word "unhealthy" used multiple times either ever other hour, day, week, and more. To the general public, the word "unhealthy" usually refers to a persons weight, health, and well being. Though, there is actually more to the word.
Think about it..."unhealthy"...it really does have different meanings. "Unhealthy" can mean having suicidal thoughts or perhaps having thoughts of destruction towards yourself and others.
It can mean having a devoted obsession, which is and can be, unhealthy.
It can mean using pills as a crutch instead of a solution, or being in denial with ourselves and our actions. That's unhealthy. The list goes on and on.
I've never thought of these other examples of unhealthy until it was recently brought to my attention. For me, I think of the word " unhealthy", and automatically think of weight. I immediately think about a multitude of health risks due to being unhealthy, and I completely forget about the other definitions of the word and where else it could be coming from.
My main point, is that, when it comes to the word "unhealthy", there are many many different meanings and layers to the word. Stealing my friends words, unhealthy is sort of ambiguous due to the fact that typically the thought of the word is that of a very heavy, over weight person. It's our jobs to look past that meaning and spread the branches in our minds of all these other meanings to this word. It's all about being conscience of it, understanding of it, and not to pigeon hole the word in a specific category.
By thinking this way, we could potentially start a new movement with this word and its different meaning.
Nicole
Nicole
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