Oh, you are so tall!”, “You are exactly your elder brother or mother’s height!”, “Hey, are you repeater?”, “You look older than us!”

I get irritated at having to answer these embarrassing questions. They only infuriate me! Let me introduce myself to you. I am a 14-year-old girl and I study in class IX. Unfortunately, my height is 5 feet and 7 inches. Yes, I have to say unfortunately, because this is how I have been made to consider myself.

In school, I am one of the tallest students, most of the girls are below average in height and the ones that are of average height are also shorter than me.

People who are tall are often shy and walk with drooping shoulders that not only give an odd look to their personality but also a bad posture. Sometimes, inferiority complex takes over them and they feel uncomfortable in a crowd where people are mostly of average height.

Not long ago, I was also a very height conscious person. I would shy away from family gatherings and at school I would try not to get up, until I had no other choice. I would cry when someone called me a ‘pole’ or ‘Eiffel Tower’. On such occasions, I prayed to God to make me shorter or some miracle medicine or machine that would help me reduce my height.

It was my mom, who noticed that I was uneasy wherever I went. She then explained to me the importance of being tall, and told me that Allah has blessed everyone with something unique and this is not something to cry over. In fact, it is something to be happy about and be proud of!

A person who has been blessed with something unique must not get embarrassed, for instance, even if someone is short in height (below average) s/he must not feel shy or uncomfortable. It is the way Almighty Allah has created the person and why should one cry over something s/he God has given them?

Therefore, I would like to advice the readers to not to make fun of people around them for their physical features. They have no control over their natural looks and so you must not pass comments which could hurt them. If you laugh at others for something they haven’t done to themselves, you are making fun of God’s creativity!

As far as I am concerned, I am proud of my height and even my teachers praise me. So my advice to all my readers is that always appreciate others and don’t tease them because it can have a very negative impact on their personality.