I just don't get how people could choose to be this miserable forever

Well, if you don't understand it, you have two possibilities: continue throwing up your hands and judging, or, alternatively, check your privilege and consider the possibility that the vast majority of those people aren't *choosing* anything, and that the fact that you're skinny and I'm fat has little to do with the difference in what we respectively stuff in our mouths.

::shrugs::