So, I've always been kinda short, like 5'5 short. It never bothered me much, but my family was obsessed with the whole height thing. Everyone in my fam is tall, but here I am, the short one. One time, my mom took me out of school to play detective with doctors, hoping to find a way to make me taller. X-rays, consultations—the whole shebang. But guess what? The docs dropped the bomb that I won't be growing any more. You should've seen the looks on my parents' faces; it was like they thought I was dying.The doctor, looking at my X-rays, was chill about it, telling my folks height isn't everything. Did they listen? Nope. The whole ride back home was painfully quiet and awkward.To top it off, they even tried to get a sheikh to read some Quran and do some prayers for a growth spurt. Probably the only thing that made me move out to the military after highschool lol.