God Made Me Short, He Did Not Make Me Quiet

I will admit to you that I love Grey’s Anatomy.  Say what you want about Shonda Rhimes, I still think its one of the best shows on network tv.  Anyway, last week was down memory lane at good ol’ Seattle Grace where we caught a glimpse of the pre-attendee lives of some of the hospital’s best.  So blah blah blah, you don’t need a recap of the episode, but something struck me during the hospital’s ex-chief’s pep talk:

Webber: Surgery is a shark tank. Sharks have teeth. Make sure you're a shark, too, and not a minnow.
Bailey: Sir, are you referring to my height?
Webber: No, I'm not. God made you short. Who made you quiet?

Ok for the benefit of those who don’t watch the show, all you need to know is Webber is chief and Bailey is short, but whup ass of a surgeon.  Apparently she wasn’t always this way… hence the trip down memory lane.

I’m pretty much runt-sized myself.  And because of my size, most people mistake me for being kiddie or a pushover – neither of which I am or would like to be.  I am very opinionated and will bite your head off if I had too.  But this wasn’t always the case.  I was always the quiet shy kid who would never confront you cos it wasn’t “nice”.  I kind of became the person people expected someone of my height to be, because that was just so much easier.  It was a long time coming before I sort of grew into this person I am today.  As I slowly got tired of people patting my head, ignoring what I said and generally treating me like the kid I wasn’t, I knew that I was more than my size.  Yes, God made me short but he sure damn well didn’t make me quiet.  That was all me and if there’s anything I learnt in an MBA program in the US, is that you can’t be quiet.  If you want something, say it.  If you have an opinion, voice it.  If you don’t damn well agree, fight it out.  My height means I might have to try a little harder to be heard, I might have to do a little more to stand tall, but I am once again inspired to be bigger than the sum of my inches – God made me short, he didn’t make me quiet.