Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I have harped on my height before in the past. Well, I'm about to do it again, and there is nothing you can do about it short of immediately exiting out of this post. So if you’re going to stick around, just let me rant for a minute . . . .
"Wow! You are really tall! Do you play basketball?"
This is a question that I have been asked many, many times throughout my life, and I was just asked it again just a little while ago. I am not actually sure exactly how many times I have been asked this question, but my guess is that it is somewhere around 11,546,368 times.
So yeah, at 6’4, I am tall. And I do play basketball. In fact, I have played hoops since I was a kid, and still to this day play it every week of the year, even at my current age of 42. I also happen to be quite good at it, thank you very much, but that is neither here nor there . . . .
But the thing is, I am too damn tall! That others remark about it while I am in drab confirms it. Statistics confirm it. There are taller guys out there than me, but not many. And there are even fewer women that are my height or taller. Just a miniscule number, actually, and not a number of any real significance.
Please, however, spare me the comfort. I have heard over and over again on this forum that there are more tall girls around than ever, that you have to own your height, that many will not pay attention to it regardless, and so on. From where I am standing, though, high within the clouds, I beg to differ. People do notice. It’s actually quite difficult not to notice when you are standing in the presence of someone that is towering over you.
As such, trying to blend in anonymously as a woman at 6’4 is damn near impossible. It is game over. I suppose, however, that there is nothing I can do about it, except to continue playing basketball until my stupid knees or ankles blow out. There is, after all, no amount of makeup that can conceal height.
But damn I hate it! It sucks! I am just too damn f'ing tall!
I can still hear the question in my mind from earlier today:
"Wow! You are really tall! Do you play basketball?"
Yes goddamnit! I am tall! I do play basketball! Now leave me alone, go away, and stop reminding me that I am one freaky tall ass chick!
Sigh.
Thank you for allowing me this rant. I'm done now.