tradeoffs

High heels somehow have the ability to endow a sense of power and strength – they make you stand up taller, and walk with more conviction, but are unfortunately difficult to balance in, and a terrible impedance on speed when trying to keep up with the other (male) members of my team. So I have learned to travel with a pair of flats at all times. Such is one daily trade off: to be short and fast or tall but slow. Option three (to be tall, and fast) is ostensibly unrealistic for me.