Originally posted by ABM
Don't dwell on something you cant change. There's nothing you can do about how tall you are so don't worry about it. Go out and try your best and thats pretty much all you can do.
That's true. I'm 5'4 and you don't know the number of times I've said that to myself. Yet after nearly 18 years, you'd think I'd just accept the way I am. But it's not easy, and somedays it just gets to me so much I just...
I always ask myself 'why'. Why am I like this? Why can't I be normal just like every other guy? I try to console myself by saying it could be worse, I could have some disease or something. But why should I have to do that? 99% of other people don't, why do I have to be in that ****ty 1% of the population?
I can even remember back in kindergarten people making comments about my height, and I can actually remember feeling self-conscious about it at that age. Can you imagine people making such judgements or comments about you at 5 years old? Now imagine that sort of thing every day, of your entire childhood. What effect do you think that would have?
You all have no idea. I know you're saying stop feeling sorry for yourself and get the fúck over it. I say that to myself. It is just that saying that to myself is easy, but following that advice is, I truly believe, close to impossible.