We have all read and heard of short girl problems, and how it must suck to be under the average height, but what people do not dare to do is reach beyond the part that is not so great, to find things that rock about being below five foot two. I, a human of five feet exactly, will take that challenge and shed some positive light on the short people community of the world, and how it is actually easier to be smaller.
1. Buying clothes from the youth section. Yup, I still do this, and you know what rocks about it? It is at least ten dollars cheaper than the rest of the clothing options. Of course, it is a children's extra large, but it still does the job and is lighter on my wallet.
2. Youthfulness lingers around a lot longer. Being short, people assume that I could not be already well into my college years, which is totally fine because one day when I am bordering the age of 30 or 40, I will rely on this assumption to lift my spirits.
3. Faster walking abilities. Since my legs, and many others who are around the same height as me, are probably pretty short, I am forced to keep up with my long legged friends whose leisure stroll is actually a fast walk, or almost a jog for me, so through the years I have learned to really pump these legs of mine and keep up with the best of them.
4. Making friends easier. I don't know about everyone else but being little for me is just an invitation for taller people to use my shoulder as an armrest and that just creates friendship right there. Another way we make friends is when I have to ask the taller people at clothing stores to get something down for me, and then we just start talking about how cute the shirt is that I want to buy that they helped me reach.
5. Almost anything we do is pretty much a workout. The fast walking is a workout, the getting on our tiptoes to reach things, the jumping to also try and reach things, the always stretching to reach things. So really all the ways we try to get to things that we are just not meant to get to.
6. Literally no guy is too short. You see, some girls will only date guys taller, and that tends to be a problem for some of my friends, but shorty over here has a wide range of people, because almost everybody is taller than me.
