The Advantages and Disadvantages of Being Tall free essay sample

There are certain advantages and disadvantages of being tall but let us look them from different aspects. The first aspect is the physical advantages and disadvantages of being tall. Being tall is useful in several cases. For example, it makes it easier if you have to stand on the bus because you can reach the hand-rail or it helps if you are in a crowd because you can see over people’s heads. It can also help you in reaching the top cupboards in the wardrobe without any difficulty so you do not need to use a chair or something else. But certainly we have to mention also the physical disadvantages of being above average in height. We all know how difficult it is for tall people to buy clothes that fit them and also we all know that furniture and the means of transportation are designed for average people. So I suppose that extremely tall people must feel very uncomfortable while driving a car, standing on the bus with their head bent or sitting on a bus or a train with no leg-room. We will write a custom essay sample on The Advantages and Disadvantages of Being Tall or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page I can also imagine how they feel while making a special order for a bed that will fit them or going on holiday and staying in a hotel where there is not any bed that fits them so their only alternative is maybe sleeping on the floor. I guess not so nice a way to spend your holiday. The second aspect depends on the situation which means that in some situations being tall can be an advantage and in others it can be a disadvantage. For example, it can give you an air of authority if you are a professor, director, agent of marketing, a leader of some organization, or if you have any other kind of profession which is connected with communication with people because people will respect you much more if they have to look at you from below. But that is only if you do not look funny being so tall because in some cases people who are tall and at the same time whose parts of the body or figure are not proportional may look stupid, which means that instead of looking authoritative and people looking up to them, their height will cause the opposite effect. Also height makes people noticeable. This also can be an advantage or a disadvantage. If people desire to be noticed at parties, meetings or whatever kind of assemblies then it might be useful to be tall. But if they do not want to be noticed, for example pupils at school while their teachers are asking questions, or criminals, maybe, when they are trying to run away from the authorities, then it might be very difficult for them to escape from people’s view or to hide. The third aspect is connected with one’s career. In some professions like modelling or professional basketball playing one of the basic conditions to be able to become a model or a basketball player is to be tall. You may be very beautiful and you may play basketball extremely well but that is not worth it if you are short. But if you want to become a jockey then you should not be tall because if you are tall you cannot be a successful and a professional horse-rider. That is because jockeys need to be light and shorter. The fourth and last aspect is of a social nature. It includes prejudices and cultural attitude towards people who are above average in height. This aspect also concerns the relations between sexes. I do not know about other countries but in our country there is an opinion (or maybe it is better to define it as a prejudice) among most of the people here that men must be taller than their wives or boys taller than their girlfriends. Otherwise they will be called a French couple which is not a big thing, indeed, but sometimes it does not sound nice. In my personal opinion I also would not like to have a boyfriend or husband shorter than me and that is not because of this prejudice but because I am short and if my husband is shorter than me, then we will look like two little dwarfs, which will be very humiliating. But if I had been tall, then it would not have mattered to me if my boyfriend (or husband) was shorter than me. What counts in a relation between two people from opposite sexes is the love they have for each other and their mutual understanding. At the end, as a conclusion to what is written above, I would only say that being tall has some advantages and disadvantages the same as being short has them. So do not be desperate if you are too short or too tall. Nature has created us the way we are and height is one of the things we cannot change about ourselves besides many other things in life which we wish to change but we simply cannot. But do not forget that sometimes (in fact always) what counts in us is our character or personality and what there is deep inside us. The surface of the sea never tells us what there is on the bottom of it.