St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, Epc

A friend of mine sent me an article from GQ magazine this week, entitled “Inside the World of Leg-Lengthening.” Apparently, this is a recent phenomenon among wealthy men who are willing to have their femurs broken and gradually extended by titanium implants in order to gain three to six inches of height. The friend who sent the article is about my stature and neither of us will ever be able to afford it, so I didn’t take it as a slight. He knew I’d be as fascinated as he is by the psychology of the thing. You see, each patient interviewed plainly admitted that he was driven to these extreme cosmetic measures by jealousy. To be clear, these men were not actually jealous of the height of other men, per se, but of the advantages that seem to correlate with that higher elevation. Believe me, if any of these men thought they could get those benefits without the height, not one of them would have bothered with the procedure. If we’re willing to listen carefully, what and whom we’re jealous of can actually tell us