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Consider the size of your hands.
It's not something I usually think about;
You don't ever really think about your hands.
You might idly remark to yourself from time to time.
I wonder if I can use them for anything good.
It's all just potential right now
But it's extremely obvious potential.
Big things have enormous beginnings:
If my children and my children's children
And all the children after that
Keep contorting their hands like this for generations
Will our hands evolve to have gigantic thumbs?
Giving the people what they want:
It compensates for the awkwardly protruding.
It helps obscure the unsightly.
Not terribly exciting, or groundbreaking.
Add those three things together and
When the tips of your fingers are grasping on for dear life,
Your fingers need to secure a firm grip.
I can still wrap my fingers around
Real-world performance is where it's at.
Beating back its would-be usurpers.
It fits more naturally in your grip.
These catch and bend light in a way that's sure to appeal to
Regardless of how large your mitts are.
Feels good to hold and feels beautifully solid —
It takes some getting used to.
Perhaps most importantly -- it offers far more endurance
I instantly wanted to slip it into a case just to be safe.
Two years ago, I sought out a 7-Eleven near my house
Too far away for your shrimpy little thumb to reach.
Posed next to last year's model
The beast [had] been up to its usual tightening and polishing.
It [had] made some tweaks to make the size less awkward.
I don't always subscribe to the "thinner is better" mantra,
I'll always have a soft spot for
I recently visited the same 7-Eleven.
You know what the guy told me?
Bigger and better, but with stiffer competition.
Apparently big is what the public wants,
You know what the guy told me?
Marks you as belonging to a religion.
Then I rode around rough roads.
I pull out my phone to check sports scores,
Everything is better and nothing is different.
There's nothing truly ambitious here,
Or of a new way of living in the present.
And that's pretty frustrating.
Hopefully things will improve.
The size of your hands, and your tolerance
For straining to reach the corners
But I'm confident that will happen.
Big things have enormous beginnings
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