Centenarian Henry Kissinger recently returned to China. The old man in the picture had a significantly lesser stature than President Xi. Visual inspection reveals that he is currently about 165 cm tall. However, according to an old photograph of Chairman Mao from the early 1970s, he stood at about 180 cm (and astonishingly, his stunning wife was as tall as about 195 cm). Well, the "butchers knife" that is time.

I went with my wife yesterday afternoon to the Veteran General Hospital for an eye exam after her cataract surgeries. I used a self-checking device to measure my height, weight, and BMI as I waited. I am 166.2 cm tall according to the machine, which means that throughout the years, my height has decreased by 1.8 cm. Oh my goodness!