I think it sets up the scene, of her having to look up at his face a little bit
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Damage@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Interesting how this short story includes height
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
See a couple my age out in public. Its this guy who is 6 inches tall and is being held in the palm of the hand of his gf. “What?” He squeaks. She looks down at him relentlessly with a big closed smile. “I’m just glad I met you.”
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
NEED
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You could just say “She looked up into his eyes”
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Interesting how you chose to describe this story by its height
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Dude, incels are obsessed with height
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The act of rumination on a depressive episode involves your brain trying to find something about you, something immutable and deeply connected with who you are as a person, and it takes that thing and amplifies it through a wickedly destructive lens.
See, a lot of people don’t know how their own brain works. They think they can think about something and their thoughts will reason out a solution, or that all their ideas are based on the brain’s ability to connect logical elements.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Your brain is designed to write a story to explain how you feel. If you already feel bad, especially if you’re not entirely sure why, your brain will scramble for a story, it will tie together every weird loose-end it can find, and assemble a batshit nonsense story for you, which you will believe wholeheartedly. You think your brain is you. You think your thoughts have to be true if they come from inside. Many people never consider that their own thinking is fundamentally wrong, and most of us are wrong about a number of things we feel wholly confident about.
Curbing depressive episodes and getting your life back involves learning to identify when you start ruminating and nipping it in the bud. For many insecure, lonely guys, memes/stories like this will be MAJOR trigger-points for rumination episodes, an act that becomes strangely addictive when you’re suffering depression.
The difference between some sullent incel who hates life and hates you and hates women and hates themselves, but happens to be 5’ 9", versus a really short dude who has a nice girlfriend and smiles a lot about their life and appreciates what he has, absolutely comes down to how their brains have learned to assemble stories for their world and how emotionally intelligent they are. Some dude is reading this post right now gnashing their teeth because their brain is resisting this message because brains hate to be wrong. Even though they’re very good at being wrong.
scarilog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is just… Wow, absolutely incredible explanation.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You discribe both nightmares and anxiety realy well with your explanation IMO. And intrusive thoughts probably follow the same “brain has a target, and just fills in the details to fet there” too.
Those people vaning away because of a girl 6 inches shorter though, I mean it’s just 15cm?? Even a shorty can find girls 15 cm shorter, right? Amazing.
medgremlin@midwest.social 2 months ago
It’s really unhealthy to categorize people by something as superficial as height though. I’m about 1 inch taller than my husband. The only consequence of that is the fact that it looks kinda silly if I wear really high heels. He’s not self-conscious about it, I’m not self-conscious about it, and if either of us placed value on the woman in a heteronormative relationship needing to be shorter, I wouldn’t have ended up with the love of my life.
Writing someone off because of one stat/measurement is absolutely insane and I think a lot of people would be happier if they quit or heavily limited their social media use to limit the torrent of self-criticism from comparison that come from social media.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
They are the only people that actually know their own height. Most people have a vague idea but they can’t give you exact measurements because to be honest it’s not important.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Im tall enough that I can reach the upper cupboards without a stool if I stand on my tippy toes. That’s what’s truly important.