Diary Entry: Running With Boys Was Humbling

I just came to two humbling realizations today. One was that I couldn't realistically run on the high school track that fast or long as a seven year-old because, quite frankly, just walking to the track from my elementary school was enough cardio at my age. I felt very discouraged by that up until now. It was like that scene from the movie, "Indian Summer," where Diane Lane's character kept trying to run faster than the boys at summer camp, but they were always ahead of her.

The second realization was that I am probably the size of my N6 LPO's leg, a terrifying man, who was 6'5. I didn't realize I was a runt until I joined the Navy, where I was somehow always the smallest. I think my childhood best friend, Bobby realized I was even before I joined the Navy. Saher probably knew, but kept that thought to himself. Throughout my childhood, I kept taking multivitamins for healthier bone growth, and my South Vietnamese-American pediatricians thought I was just fine, growth-wise.