My west coast brother has informed me that today is "International Vulture Awareness Day" and also "National Humming Bird Day." When I read his text I was struck by the contrast between a really large bird like a vulture and a tiny little bird like a humming bird.
And I started wondering - do humming birds ever look up and wish they were as big as a vulture? On the other hand does a vulture ever spy a humming bird and wish she was tiny and petite?
These musings took me back to memories of my middle school and high school years. I went to very small schools, only 52 in my graduating class, 12 in my middle school class. As it happened I was the tallest girl in the whole school (not quite as homely as a vulture but very unsure of my looks).
As it also happened, most of my girlfriends were about 5'2" (cute and petite - think humming birds) to my 5'10" and in middle school, already 5'10", I was taller than all the boys. I spent half my life during those years wishing I was shorter. I even read an article about having some bone removed in my legs to be shorter. Thankfully I couldn't afford that.
Then happily I went off to college where I discovered that in the world beyond my small hometown there were lots of girls close to my height and, even better, lots of young men who were taller than me. The dating scene was way better than in high school.
One more happy coincidence - my first college roommate, who became my BFF, was 5'2" and we discovered that the huge advantage in our height difference was that we were never tempted to borrow each others clothes. A win win for sure.
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