How to cope with regret?
27 Male. My father is 5 11, my mother is my height and I am 5 4.
I am the shortest male in my family, when I was a kid, I stopped eating properly and that stunted my growth, I stopped growing in the middle of high schooI while I saw all my friends grew taller than me, I was getting sick all the time, I lost a lot of weight. Prove of that is that my adult bone density is in the bottom 1%, meaning my peak bone mass also took a toll, which furthers limit my ability to gain muscle and, believe me, I do so many things.
I am not ugly, I have my things, but women are so empowered nowadays they only want the top % men even if they are average. I would like to find that someone but I have experienced so many "you are cute, but you are too short for me", "oh hes funny but hes too short for me". I only need the interview, but its very hard to get that if you cannot get past the "height filter".
I know height doesnt mean anything, it literally does not stop us from doing anything, outside of looks, it does not bother me that I am short, but it bothers me that it diminishes my chances of finding that someone and that I cannot change it.
So yes, I cannot change my height nor change the past, I can only move forward, but still, it is a hard pill to swallow, knowing you messed up, and you cannot do anything about it, we live on hard mode, things would had been way easier "if".