Unusual Friendship Show Stories: How an Overweight Teenager Made Beautiful Friends

Ask a hundred people and you will get 100 different stories about friendship.

For some people, making friends is as easy and natural as breathing. For others, it is much more difficult. They are different in some way, and cannot or will not fit in with the people around them.

Those people with few or no friends are at risk of leading a lonely and unhappy life. I would like to share a story with you about those people and how they found friends and happiness.

And in the process, he discovered that friendships are more valuable than money.

This story is about my friends’ little sister, Eleanor. Eleanor is a big girl. She today she weighs 425 pounds. Although her family didn’t find out until long after this story, she has a medical condition called insulin resistance, which means she’s constantly gaining weight and it’s very difficult, if not impossible, for her to lose weight.

Being so fat set her apart from the other kids at school, and she quickly learned that it was easier to avoid them. For a time, she seemed doomed to spend her school years sitting on the edge of the playground reading a book while everyone else laughed and played during recess.

Then one summer in high school, she auditioned for a summer children’s play, ‘Finian’s Rainbow,’ and won the lead.

Eleanor is very talented. She is very energetic, very creative, very funny, a good actress, and wow…she can sing! But being in this play meant that she would be in daily contact with a group of strangers for six weeks, and she was very worried about her weight. She was worried that the other children would make fun of her, as her schoolmates did, and particularly worried about the jealous actresses who had lost the leading role to her.

But theater and acting attract a certain kind of person, a person who wants to be someone else. The kids who auditioned for the summer play were all different in their own way, even if it wasn’t obvious. They tended not to pick on others who were different, because they were different themselves, and all they really wanted was to be allowed to be different without fear of persecution. So most of them didn’t judge her on her weight, but on her personality and talent.

Now Eleanor is understandably very shy, but once you get to know her, she’s a very sweet girl. Her fellow actors soon found out. As Eleanor proceeded to hit all the high notes, nimbly dance the Irish Jig despite her weight and make the audience cry or laugh out loud, she earned the respect of her fellow actors. As the cast of the play spent time together, both in the theater and out at cast parties, Eleanor discovered that she suddenly had a large circle of friends.

Of course, the play was finally over. So, you might think that there would be no more stories about friendship for Eleanor, except sad stories.

But you would be wrong.

The social structure that had bound Eleanor and her friends had vanished. But Eleanor wouldn’t be so easily discouraged, not now that she had finally made a circle of friends for the first time in her life.

So he borrowed a video camera and got his friends together to make an amateur movie. They made several amateur movies together during high school and college, and had a lot of fun doing it.

That summer play was over fifteen years ago, and Eleanor’s friends graduated, got married, and dispersed to the four winds. But many of the friends Eleanor made that summer remain good friends with her today, largely thanks to the modern wonder of email and the Internet.

They understood the importance of friendship, they realized that you can’t judge a book by its cover, they wanted the benefits of friendship, so they opened their hearts to each other.

Article Summary

The moral of this story is that anyone can make friends under the right circumstances. You just need to find a group to fit into. If you or your children are different in some way, this may be more difficult, but never impossible. First, find something you or your child is good at. Then find a group of people or children who do the same. This could be anything: drawing, singing, working on cars, playing with computers… even being a fan of a book, TV show, or movie. And if you can’t find a group like this, make one up, like Eleanor did with her movies.

You or your child will meet people with similar interests and therefore the conversation will be easy, natural and fun. Group members will judge you on your knowledge and skill in your shared hobby or interest, and hopefully find something to respect in you or your child. Acquaintances made this way can quickly blossom, deepen, and become lifelong friendships, just like with Eleanor and the cast of ‘Finian’s Rainbow.’

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