Being Short
This weekend I was camping with friends and we were playing "What if" around the campfire.
What if you had 10 million dollars?
What if you could live anywhere?
What if you had to totally change careers?
What if you could change something about your physical self?
I said that I would make myself taller. Everyone was surprised because my size is somewhat definitive about me. (For anyone that doesn't know me in real life, I'm 4'11".) My height, or obvious lack thereof, is definitely one of the things people first notice about me. However, the older I get, the more I'd prefer to just blend in with everyone else.
Today, my friend Karen sent a NPR article called The Secret Advantage Of Being Short. The article explains that short people may experience the world slightly faster than tall people since the information has a shorter distance to travel from our nerves to our brain. Somehow this information makes me feel just a tiny bit better about being short.
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There is also some scientific evidence that short people may live longer.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3334...
I heard that NPR piece, too, and I immediately thought of you.
Thanks, Andrea. Glad to hear there's another advantage to being short!
Alison, that's funny you thought about me. Am I really THAT short? Oh wait...yes, I am.
My grandmother is your height and she'll laugh and say it gives her an excuse to ask young handsome gentlemen to grab items for her from the top shelf. :)
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