Thursday 21 February 2013

Heights of Heels

All my childhood, I was let down by snooty loud mouthed aunties and specifically relatives, that I am short. As a child, it made me feel that I have something amiss in me. The day I went to college, was the day I noticed that I was never short, I was a height of an average Indian female - I stand around 5'2".

There are a lot of interesting things that happen to people who wish to stand taller than they originally are. Nothing is wrong in wearing a heel, it lifts you a little higher, makes you feel feminine, but it can also give you a shoe bite, or a foot pain besides being something that makes you uncomfortable. But the worse of all is - picture this - a girl with all the confidence walks with her high heels on a busy street and suddenly you cannot see her.

She just tripped - somebody will give her a hand to get up, ask if she is alright, and some might blast laughing at the scene. But there is something that is happening deep in the girl who just tripped. It tells her - told you not to get high, and be what you are - smile graciously or may be laugh at it (as long as you did not fall with nose hitting the floor) and get up!

P.S: No matter how tall or short you stand, how obese or anorexic you are, no matter if you don't fall in the conventional matrix of - fair, beautiful, slim girl or a tall, dark, handsome boy, know that you are unique and not a carbon copy of someone. People (like the laughing passer by) have all sorts of comments to make, to bruise your esteem, but that reflects on them, not on you.

Author's Note: Start accepting the way you are, the world will envy you for your differences. 

9 comments:

  1. I agree! Accept the way you are... P.S. I find those high heels sexy... as long as you are not ruining your ankles or that figure or going through that enormous discomforting pain...
    Its fun to experiment though I usually am in my normal self!! But smtimes like i am high on life, i get high on heels too.. :))

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  2. Really good shine....but who says you are short.... your height is your knowledge... that what i feel not your presence....

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  3. Something we miss in everday life...
    something we need in everyday life ...
    ACCEPTANCE.

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  4. Something we miss in everday life...
    something we need in everyday life ...
    ACCEPTANCE.

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  5. @Shesha.. We look for acceptance from others, and ignore, and underestimate the power of self-acceptance.. As you say, one should put oneself first, the right ones will follow.. Wink

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  6. @Manan: Thanks :)
    I agree that a person's presence should be counted by knowledge and not appearance.

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  7. @Jharna: People who do not accept others, or push other to change for the so called societal acceptance are the one's who are under gross self doubts!

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  8. Remember, good things come in small packages ;). And stop caring about what petty minds think about you.

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  9. @Anupriya (perplexed soul) - But it ought to be un-anorexic ;p

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