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[This Year's December Days Theme is Community, and all the forms that it takes. If you have some suggestions about what communities I'm part of (or that you think I'm part of) that would be worth a look, let me know in the comments.]
I have not been short for most of my life. By the time I had exited elementary school, I was already well on my way to my full adult height, and I believe I had crested the six foot mark at that point. (1.82m, for people who use sensible metric systems instead of stange imperial ones.) As my mother would joke, it was a yearly question of whether we would make it to summer break before I outgrew my uniform clothes for that year. (I did not outgrow them, as best as I can remember, but there is also always a thriving exchange of uniform clothing for Catholic schooling, so if there had been a swap, I wouldn't have noticed.) I am most certainly not a member of the average height club for the country, although I am a member of the average height club for people of my body type in my family group. And my youngest sibling is taller than I am. (I'm a lttle over 1.9m, my sibling is just over 2m.) So there's plenty of my life where I find myself wishing for some additional length in many things. As I've gotten older, of course, and continued on a US diet, along with not getting quite as much exercise as I was during my university days, (marching band will definitely give you plenty of options for vigorous activity) I've also gotten rounder. (My ex routinely mentioned that I needed to be less skinny than I was, and so she might have gone in to try for some of that.)
( So that means I qualify as Big and Tall, and sometimes that's not great. )
For all of the jokes about the weather and the complete exclusion from the Average Height Club, I still like being tall, and I've come to accept that I'll have some big to me as well. So long as there aren't too many people trying to cut short their own existences by telling me that I have to go back to the skinny person that I was twenty years ago, I think I can manage to make it work. And it's a community that I think a fair number of people are part of.
I have not been short for most of my life. By the time I had exited elementary school, I was already well on my way to my full adult height, and I believe I had crested the six foot mark at that point. (1.82m, for people who use sensible metric systems instead of stange imperial ones.) As my mother would joke, it was a yearly question of whether we would make it to summer break before I outgrew my uniform clothes for that year. (I did not outgrow them, as best as I can remember, but there is also always a thriving exchange of uniform clothing for Catholic schooling, so if there had been a swap, I wouldn't have noticed.) I am most certainly not a member of the average height club for the country, although I am a member of the average height club for people of my body type in my family group. And my youngest sibling is taller than I am. (I'm a lttle over 1.9m, my sibling is just over 2m.) So there's plenty of my life where I find myself wishing for some additional length in many things. As I've gotten older, of course, and continued on a US diet, along with not getting quite as much exercise as I was during my university days, (marching band will definitely give you plenty of options for vigorous activity) I've also gotten rounder. (My ex routinely mentioned that I needed to be less skinny than I was, and so she might have gone in to try for some of that.)
( So that means I qualify as Big and Tall, and sometimes that's not great. )
For all of the jokes about the weather and the complete exclusion from the Average Height Club, I still like being tall, and I've come to accept that I'll have some big to me as well. So long as there aren't too many people trying to cut short their own existences by telling me that I have to go back to the skinny person that I was twenty years ago, I think I can manage to make it work. And it's a community that I think a fair number of people are part of.
