Anorexia

　　　We decide to present the issue of “Anorexia” in the final project of Freshman English. I have been interested in such issue for a long time since I read an article about anorexia. That was talked about a girl who has anorexia because she wanted her father can notice her. She believed that only by becoming thin would her father pay more attention to her. Then she started exercise, didn’t eat anything but a glass of grapes, and vomited, just like typical patients of anorexia would do. I started to wonder that what causes them to hate their body and believe that they can still alive without eating anything. Or which kind of force could compel them to put their love food to the ground?

　　　Probably because I have no problem in my figure, I can’t understand the desire of becoming thinness of a fat or full figure person. But what’s surprising me is that a lot of anorexic are already slender! Maybe because of their occupation such as models, they needed to be thinner and thinner (that’s also another serious issue about several models who got anorexia died last few years) or other reasons. I simply curious about why they regard this concept as nothing big deal, even think that it’s normal. I particularly love the essay wrote by those who really got anorexia talking about how they look at their action, their body’s different, and their feelings of this disease. At this time, research papers are useless because they always talking about the solutions instead of the feeling of the patients.

　　　However, this time we focus on the children anorexic, which is more surprising in society. We found a piece of news in Taiwan and one in other country. The former is about the youngest patient of anorexia only ages seven, the first grade in elementary school, the most innocent age in our whole life! The latter is about a five-years-old boy getting anorexia because he believes that he would be teased if he is fat. I believe that most of us have a wonderful childhood, didn’t have to worry about the figure, the grade, and the relationship between our friend and us. The most influential people are our parents, and even if we have friends, the topics around us should always be the play – where we can have fun, when we should meet each other, and what we can play.

　　　Now every thing – the value and the attitude toward shape, health, and the most important one, life – are all different from our childhood. How come these innocent children have to face these trivial problems? How can we help them to go back to their naïve world? I don’t know the answer for I myself could not understand the strong request of being thinness. I agree that we all need a lot of things to feel alive, family, love, and friends. But I also trust that we all need one thing – to actually be alive. If we lose our life in order to pursue some not-really-need dreams, all of them become not exist.