If my looks could kill...

“Frail thin as if dying like Palito!” This was a description I can very well remember by the bully boys back in high school. Now, I’m out of high school. Out of college and as a matter of fact got a job – but still frail thin as if dying like Palito. My perhaps frail brain once wondered. What if I have the looks and body of a famous movie star? Like Sam Milby or Piolo Pascual, would those boys still bully me and call me names in front of amused girls? I doubt they will envy me from head to toe. If ever I got the looks of a combined Piolo and Sam, for sure I’ll kill those bullies by just looking at me. Obsessed with getting a six pack abs like the models in MensHealth and other glossies, I browsed the net for practical tips for body building. All I got? Rigid discipline in hitting the gym and vitamins that costs as heavy as a 200 pounds barbell. Obviously are tips that are not practical in my case. Nuts! Would I really spend that much for a body that I perceive everyone would envy? Then it hit me like a dumbbell that fell on my foot-never would I kill my pocket just to get the looks that would kill in envy those bully boys. Frail thin and dying like Palito I may be, but I believe my eyes are seductive more than Brad Pitt has which those bully boys back in high school never have. *** This short feature won 1st place for Feature Writing (English) School Paper Adviser Category during the 2007 Regional Training of School Paper Advisers and Campus Journalists held at Punta Villa resort, Arevalo, Iloilo City, Philippines on September 5-6, 2007.