If you think life is unfair, try fitting into the shoes of a short man. Okay, you may not fit in them but let’s assume for a moment that you acfracominasaldi senzamai legioiedigea loevenichhutkaufen blaineharmont kleankanteentrinkflasche negozitata diegodellapalma negozigeox kleankanteentrinkflasche diegodallapalmaoutlet ynotborse marellaoutlet benettonoutlet tatascarpe tually are in them.
You arrive home feeling really tired and exasperated that the teenage girls at the supermarket referred to you as ‘haka kamsee’ after you politely asked them to make way for you amid their 102764th selfiecapade at the cake aisle.
In the living room, your woman is perched high on that bar stool your dad got you for your 20th birthday so that you could join the table of men without having others looking down on you when your opinion was needed. Literally speaking.
She is trying to replace the bulb that just blew after a power surge with a new one, but upon seeing you, she sighs in relief, jumps off the stool and hugs you.
The fact that she bends her knees a little when hugging you really bothers you but you are not going to raise that right now.
You never have anyway.
If anything, you are made to believe you are lucky to even have a woman. Women generally do not prefer short guys, or so they say.
“Babe, please replace the bulb. I need to clean this place up”, she coos, quite oblivious of what she is about to put you through.
You smile, stroke her chin (since you can’t reach her hair anyway) and nod, bearing in mind you might have to get a ladder at that time of the night. That light has to be fixed one way or another.
Hanging out with the boys is slowly becoming a problem ever since Marcus came back from the States. He’s made it his sole task to make fun of how vertically challenged. Worse still, you cannot tell what really irks you; the low-key insults or his fake accent.
You once tried defending yourself with the cliché ‘The shorter the monkey…’ slogan only to be shot down with a joke about how you tie your shoe laces while standing.
Speaking of shoes, you painfully recall that time you went shopping for a new pair only for the attendant to peek at you over the counter and head straight to the children section without asking about the size.
The internet does not spare you either. You are forcefully fed with memes poking fun at how close you are to the ground every day.
They all think it’s funny.
Yet when you try defending yourself, they say you have short man syndrome!
#ThePainOf
I feel him …. Difficult world for him it is
Its a difficult one alright.