Short eh?

I have been short for literally my whole life, so its really nothing new for someone to tease me about it.

" Hey, I'm Syahmi, just call me Sam. "

" Oh! Nice to meet you! You know you're kinda short "

" Whaa.. Whooaa.. Oh dear! When did this happened? I must been unaware of my physical appearance for the past 23 years of my life! How could I be so blind? Thank you! From the bottom of my heart, oh stranger whom I just met. Thank you for enlightening me with your brilliance and informing me of this important and highly relevant matter! I will now waste my time indulging in this epiphany that you have bestowed upon me. "

" You're welcome???? "

" Shut up! "

I used to be self-conscious about it when I was a kid and thought something was wrong with me. I had high hopes for myself and believed that I might be just a late bloomer. I wore big T's or some of my dad's Tees that were obviously too many sizes up for me because I thought it was cool and gangsta at the time but also because I believed I'd grow into them.

TLDR.. High school came and I was still short.

People teased me but I stayed confident that the day will finally come when tiny little Sam hits the prophesied growth spurt and towers over you peasants who believed there was no consequence for teasing and bullying me!!

But the prophecy was false..

I was told on average that boys stopped growing at the age of 16. Once I reached the age of 16, people start giving me a false sense of hope and said it was actually at age 18 that boys stopped growing and once I was 18 people started telling me 21?

Like seriously!?

Whaaaaat!!??

I eventually stop looking forward to a day that would never come. I never got my growth spurt and I never even grew enough to be of the average height. I remain small and membulat over the years. It was always funny when people thought it was a diet issue or physical fitness issue, but people kept saying crap like..

" Oh you just need to drink more milk, gotta get that calcium for them bones to grow! "

and I'm like....

" Bitch, I drink milk every mornin! My bones are strong but they aint growin! I ate my greens and I ate my fruits but the results just aint showin! "

Geez! Dont get me rappin guys hahaha.

Overtime, I came to embrace my short stature and it became less about tolerating it but actually cherishing myself for who I was and to be honest it's come in handy and brought me into some interesting situations over the years.

Tho Im not saying that being short is better. I hate being unable to reach things from high shelves without a stepladder or having to parkour but being shorts pretty cool in some cases, makes the world seem a little bigger and grander even if its just a few centimetres.

I dont mind being short but if I had the ability to control my size, would that make me a super hero? or a super normal? But meh, I wouldnt really fight crime with it, Ill probably just use it to mess around with people to be honest. Haha