Being tall is a wonderful thing.
Within any crowd, the tall
man’s head wobbles over the preening eyes of the mob. In a crowded abbey, while
everyone suffocates with the closest neighbor’s sweat strewn clothing, your head
acts as a viable receiver for oxygen for your sustenance. Often regarded as the weather man and being
mocked upon the weather enquiries up there, life being a tall person has its
fair share of perks and liabilities. It is always the head that needs attention
while you walk down that goddamn narrow lane, strewn with branches of trees
that encroach their way into the lane. Every bump on the road whilst in a
crowded bus brings out a rhythmic beat of the thud of the head on the
headboard, each syllable born out of the poor head’s peril. Not to mention the woes of sitting in a
crowded bus, the knee cap cracks with the pressure of the impending braking in
the hectic city traffic.
Can you find
proper clothing that you fit in? The shirt that you fit in properly is short
for the arms and torso. Go one size big
and you find yourselves wearing a baggy one. No jeans or trouser requires
alterations in the bottoms. You are good to go just like that.
Can you find a car that you can comfortably sit in the
driver’s seat? If you can, can you seat a normal human being behind you? If you
can do that, man, you have got some serious disposable income to buy that big
burly SUV.
And then, the privilege of being tall kicks in. Have you
tried being in a temple where you have lunge up to see the deity? Well, it is
just a breeze if you are tall. You can communicate with Him, eye to Eye, man to
Man.
People look up to you. Literally, figuratively and yeah
physically too, craning their neck to see you in the eye.
The best part of being tall is that you are tall. In the
world of burly and petite midgets, you are the Gulliver. Despite the Lilliputs
trying to pull a sling on you- (read ‘pull your leg for the stretch that you
scale’) it often is just the byproduct of jealousy that spews from them for not
being able to see the world from up here.
So, the weather is fine up here, you puny earthlings, strewn
on the roads like pebbles by the brook. Take care.
