The reality of being tall...

1. Getting the top shelf or locker

This summer, I worked at a place that had lockers for all their employees. You can guess where mine was. The same applies to the shelf in the kitchen I share with all my suite mates. While I’m totally fine helping out and taking the top shelf or cabinet (because I definitely am the tallest), when stuff like that happens enough, it starts to seem like a really bad cliché.

2. Always being asked to grab things no one else can reach

Happy to be of service, m’ladies. It’s nice to feel needed sometimes.

3. Silently cursing all the short girls who are dating tall guys

I’m a huge supporter of true love, but y’all are really cramping the style for the tall girls who don’t want to date anyone shorter than them.

4. Pictures are always fun

Personally, this may be the way that being tall affects me the most. In group pictures, I always end up standing next to the shortest person, so I seem about a foot taller than I actually am. I am also very jealous of the confidence of tall girls who totally own the whole “wearing heels” thing. I, on the other hand, rarely wear heels. As I got taller and taller, I would wear heels less and less, and now I barely wear them at all. For prom, I wore really nice sandals because I knew everyone else would be wearing heels, so it would be the one time we would all look around the same height. The struggle is real, my friends.

5. Best of all, it makes you stand out

Even though there’s some negatives that come with being taller (depends on how you take it), no one can deny that it makes you stand out. While I would sometimes like to not have to think about who I’m standing next to in a picture, I love how it makes me unique and essentially makes me, me.