It's dinner time, and you want to get your pan down from the cupboard, but you were the last one to move in to the apartment, so you got stuck with the higher shelves. To get your pan down now takes tactic and extreme skill. Seriously it could almost be an Olympic sport for short people. You have to either find a chair, and stretch as far as possible and still barely reach, or creatively crawl up on the counter or even one of the shelves to reach it.
You will never outgrow Monkey in the middle, because the ball will always be out of reach. That is unless you play with short people, and even then they might be able to throw the ball high enough for you not to be able to reach it. It's just a fact of life, and even if you walk on stilts all day every day, there's no way to change the fact that everything is basically just out of reach.
It's not all bad though, getting things from lower places is no problem at all, because you aren't too high above them. You barely have to bend or crouch to get things, and that is a perk. Everything else in life brutally reminds you of your vertical impairment, and that's just the way it is.
You can either make it awful and fight it every single day, or you can just accept it, and make life an adventure by being short. I know you are probably wondering what kind of adventures you can have as a short person. I don't have an exact answer, but I do have a suggestion for it.
Since everything is literally out of reach, use your imagination to make everything that much more exciting. Imagine you are climbing Mount Everest every time you have to climb up on the counter and shelves to reach things. When you are in the pool, and the water is basically over your head at 5ft, make it an adventure by going deep sea diving. You may not find cool reefs or exotic fish, but it feels deep enough that it should count.
As long as you try and make an adventure out it, rather than a problem. Life is way more fun if it is an adventure and each person determines whether or not it will be that way, so go find your adventure, because when you're short, everything becomes more exciting, because the whole world is so much bigger for you.
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My old roommate and best friend are both short as well. They could relate with you. I will definitely share with them.
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