Obese = happy?

I figured that since I am having my block leave now while everyone else is busy with work/army, I shall have an attempt at keeping this place alive.

I'm not sure if any studies had been done before, but going by what I had experienced in BMT, it appears obese people somewhat lead happier lives.

My company was just next to Eagle Company, the extreme obese batch who went in with the Jan people and passed out with us, meaning to say, their BMT was six months long (and I do wonder how they survived it).

Just to share some interesting things...

I can still vividly recall during my first two weeks of confinement there, there was once when it was raining heavily as lunch approached, so my sergeant told us to go to Eagle to do our pull ups (they have sheltered pull up bars). Upon reaching there the Eagles guys were there too, and one happily yelled out: "Yo Falcon! What's up?"

Yes it was wrong, so we corrected them. The whole lot, upon realising their mistake, (literally :p) roared out in laughter. It was not the mistake that I remembered; it was the happy tone and mood that I could not forget.

(Later I realise they have a very close relationship with Falcon, which was just adjacent to them. According to my good friend in Falcon they used to bring food in and give to the Eagle guys haha. The relationship was there since 01/07, and it continued on to 02/07)

Another memorable incident was during my 24km route march. My company was the first coy for the 20-to-24km portion, which was from the old Sispec grounds to the parade square. As we marched past Eagle company (whom I have no idea why they didn't do 24. They no need to do or have they done it before..?) the entire company stood by their windows and cheered for us, and also for the CO who was infront of us. I guess they cheered for the entire school behind us as well. (Falcon received the loudest cheers I heard. Before the march they were told that Eagle would wake up from their sleep to cheer them haha)

How can I forget Games Day? Their mascot danced in front of the CO at the grandstands!

Ok, enough of Eagle. The Gryphon mild obese batch whom we the outgoing recruits had interactions with for the last couple of days was also a similar bunch of guys. To the others it would have been demoralising to see a batch pass out while they just started their BMT there, but these guys cheered and sang songs with us and wished us good luck etc, displaying genuine (at least to me) smiles on their faces.

Ok back to the topic. I always wonder how they seem to be able to stay so happy despite being in that place (Oops. Haha jk). One theory I came up with was that because they are obese, they are already used to how people look and point fingers at them, so maybe they do not really care anymore. Get that built into their mindsets, and they live for themselves and not for others. What matters, is that everyday is a happy day.

I kind of envy them for being able to do so. I see myself worrying all kinds of shit like where will I be posted to, what I should study in university, what kind of jobs I should get, how much money I should spend this week, how I am going to deal with that colleague with that f-up attitude etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc.

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