I am and have always been the tallest one in my class. At 6’2”, I feel like a giant among a world of midgets. As a girl, this was especially difficult to deal with because girls are not naturally this height. If they are, they are assumed to be either model-pretty or athletic–two things which I am not. I only really feel useful when people ask me to reach things for them. In these cases, I feel blessed that I am so elevated above everyone else.
I have just moved to my own apartment and it is kind of difficult to find furniture that literally fit me. I have to get most things custom-made so that I could be comfortable. In the kitchen space, I had to get my kitchen island made specially for my size. The countertops measure about 4 feet tall. Therefore, I have to invest in extra tall barstools that are about 46-inches high.
I really love my bar stools because they are some of the few things that make me feel normal. When I sit in them, my legs aren’t cramped like they would be with a conventional bar stool. No–these lovely, lofty barstools allow me to have my legs hang naturally (they actually hang!) above the ground. I no longer have back problems related to having to stoop over on the chair anymore. When people come over, they may feel a little uncomfortable that these chairs are so high up but now they get to see the world from my perspective!
