A lot of people admire my height~ Being tall is good because we get to 'look down' on a lot of people :P BUT (love and hate this word), there are a lot of downsides too...
Just to give you some examples:
1) My smaller sized friends always receive help (like loading/unloading
luggage for them) from strangers. Being tall, people assume that I am
capable of doing everything myself. Although it's true but sometimes I
would love to relax and watch others doing the things for me too :P What's worse, i sometimes have to be the one to help the smaller people
T____T
2) Pretty dresses, skirts, pants and shirts i see online or in shops here are always too small or too
short for me. The clothes here are made for Asians (although am
one but not for BIG Asian like me T___T), the knee length dress for a
'Normal' Asian becomes my blouse and i can never find long pants
and skirt that are long enough to cover my whole legs @__@ Once, i got Jane to buy
a flare skirt for me on Taobao. Guess what? In Europe, I'm a size S but
in China, i am a size XXXL! T______T
3) Smaller people always look younger than their real age while I'm the opposite, simply because I'm big and don't look 'cute' :(
4) Being on a long flight is a torture to me (i feel sorry that i can
only afford economy class) because there is not enough room to put
my spidery long legs T______T
5) I have to 'bow' to smaller sized people a lot of times, just so that
i can hear what they are saying. Hmmm.. I think they are not being polite because if i stand up to talk to them, they should stand up too. Ooopps, i forgot
that they are already standing up.. hehe, ok, this is quite bad, am just kidding~ I love bowing to smaller sized people~
Last but not least, I get recognised or remembered easily because of my
unique height. I am not unhappy about it since I don't do bad things
anyway, but I really don't like the recognition because i don't like spot lights :P
Came across a cartoon by a Taiwanese cartoonist ("I am Mark").... Totally agree!
3 comments:
hmm...your points make sense, and I add one more point.
no.6 guys tend to avoid choosing a girlfriend who is taller than him.
Whatever, your height is a gift, I still think tall is better than short.
thanks for the additional point LJ haha.. stay tuned for part 2
my height makes us unique in this part of the world i guess :P
i got a post on being tall...one day, my short friend visited me at my place in HK and she said: wow, is this how tall ppl live? and she pointed at the shampoos and stuff that i put on top of the shower rail..hehe..i didnt notice until she said it..
when i stayed at her place, i realized i had to kneel down to take stuff...hhmmm...so this is how short ppl live ;P
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