Love the field watch. Overall looking great

As an Englishman, it’s great to see these brands get some love, and have their history told.

Hey fellas, I’m Chris. I’m a mature aged dad of two beautiful girls, work in health and am soon to complete my university degree, while supporting my wife to advance her own career in management. Currently living in regional Australia but am from the U.K. originally, and have been on quite the literal and metaphorical journey over the last 15 years or so. I’m finally nearing the point when I can start to reclaim some sense of identity and focus on myself again and thought it was about time I upgrade and develop my style in line with that as it’s never really been something I’ve had much of a clue about.

Thanks all, I’m looking forward to engaging in what I can already tell is a very healthy and supportive community.

As an another fellow short guy who has basically also been overweight most of my life and pretty average looking, I hear where you’re coming from. It’s so hard not to feel small, when your uncontrollable physical proportions present you that way. And then society, and in particular social media (more on that in a moment) compound that even more; what do we keep getting told women like? TALL, dark and handsome. What frame do most off the rack men’s clothing seem to suit? 6 foot plus. Height seems to get celebrated and for what, cause someone got lucky in the gene lottery! Here’s the thing though, in truth, it’s all BS. Like you said yourself, few women have even commented on your heigh. And regarding the couple that may have done, and more so the other men that have too, that probably speaks more about their own insecurities rather then any false deficiency you feel you might have, and they’re likely the kind of people who would find fault with something else instead anyway, even if you were taller, it’s just short height is easy low hanging fruit for people who need to make themselves feel bigger by tearing others down. Now back to social media, get off it for anything like this; take a break for a month and notice how different you’ll feel. I tried the Reddit thing too, and quickly regretted it, and it’s kind of how I’ve ended up on this forum tbh. Social media by its very design is a cesspool for the kinds of people I mentioned earlier, who can cowardly hide behind their keyboards and give themselves a pat on the back and an ‘atta boy’ when they feel they’ve sufficiently dumped on someone else. A couple of other things I picked up from your clearly heartfelt and hugely courageous post. You say you got into body building, man you must be a tank, big youself up for that. That takes serious discipline, grind and dedication. Those don’t sound like attributes of a small weak man to me. And I completely understand the psychology and reasoning behind the next point because again I have been through the same issue, but do you really want to be intimidating, or to just not feel intimidated? I totally understand how you’ve gotten to this point from being beat down for so long and that must’ve been really hard for you, but there’s a huge difference, and I get the feeling you’re not the intimidating type (I know I’m certainly not) and that’s perfectly ok. Be true to who you really are and use that to gain inner strength, and any feelings of being intimidated will quietly drift away without any further effort. It has nothing to do with physical size, and everything to do with confidence and self assuredness, and weirdly the great thing about that is that you can control that; you can’t control your height. I’m not saying it’s easy, but with the right help from a good therapist, an appropriate amount of time, and the right support (like, oh I don’t know, from maybe forums like this) it can definitely be done, and I can already tell that you’re the kind of guy who has the grit deep down inside of him to make it happen, even if you haven’t yet realised it yourself. Like a diamond that is formed from extreme pressure, you’ve already endured the forming process by what life has thrown at you and you’re here to talk about it, now is the time to be dug out of the dirt so that your true form can be allowed to shine and impress.