Just a LITTLE respect

Some reach the height of insecurity. 

Defeated, as soon as they first struggle to maneuver the shopping cart at Costco. Or line up at some club anywhere in big-city U.S.A, surveying the rollout of good genes enhanced by slim jeans and slimmer stilettos. 

Inferior, 'cause they're among adults who fall under the standard-size (5"6/5"7 'n' up) category of "full-grown". Doesn't matter that they're 21 

or above. Or that their IQ is 1200 and above. If you're literally looked down upon at first sight, you're already tagged a small/little/short person and maybe half the man/woman one is supposed to be. 

Briefly, you consider that operation in China. Clock out of your normal day-to-day for almost a year and stay in bed, later stumbling from it. From the immense pain and the immeasurable frustration of having to learn to walk again.  

But all of that's a BIG load of crap. 

THE SHORTENING isn't about looking up, obligingly, to "tall" people or up to the skies for a miracle. Sure, I've let a lot of sighs out as I stared at the photo-captured incline from the top of my head to those of others. I've had my teen share of trying to measure up, downing all the "Growth Factor" pills I could. I've done the jumping jacks on the first seconds of the year, the yoga, and the prayer. But then you gain a sense of the world's bigness--you open your mind a little more and realize that the real growth factor is all about you owning up to who you are.  

 

So through this here unraveling account of a small dude trying to live as largely as he can, maybe you, reader, can raise the bar yourself. Stature is all about knowing what FITS, TASTES, and LOOKS best on you. It's high time the short sought the best places to achieve that. Shouldn't be too much of a tall order on anyone's part.