Proud to be small?

"From a small seed a mighty trunk might grow"
-Aeschylus, Greek Poet-

And a mighty trunk I'll be...someday...

Being small isn't my fault. It was a pre-determined fate, a destiny. One encoded by a mysterious entity that is in us all. The DNA.

So maybe I fall on the left of the "bell-shaped-curve" and maybe I'm unstable and easily blown-away (I don't mean mentally), but hey, I'm sure there is some good to small and I'm sure that good will come to me someday. The glass is always half full.

I don't even know what brought this up. It probably was the conversation I had with Daryl on Sunday after marketing or maybe the reaction I got from the new immigrant in my house when I mentioned I weighed slightly more than a sack of rice.

Then again, maybe I'm thinking about this because I can't find any shoes that fit me unless I look under 'kids' or a nice jacket that is smaller than a size 6. Sigh. Damn that supply and demand curve. A simple rule like that can cause small people like me (and big ppl, unlike me) to feel lost in the world of the average.

If only the "bell shaped curve" was a "W" rather than a frown, then we'd have equal proportions of small, average and large people. There would be enough small and big people in the world for manufacturers to SUPPLY small and big clothes because there would be a DEMAND for them.

Well, if only...

Having said that, I don't despise being small. Sure it's frustrating not to be able to find nice stuff that fits you but I guess being small makes you work that much harder to be noticed. I guess it doesn't matter what size you are, what matters is the amount of self-esteem you have to carry you forward. [on that note, I stumbled across a blog article talking about a so called "Short-Man-Syndrome" that talks about short people being more aggressive and less successful than tall ppl]

'Small' is good.
It's the little things you do that get you to the top. And it's the little (and big) people you count on to make the world a heterogenous place.

" If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito"
- Betty Reese-