Just the simple act of REMOVING one's shoes TO GO outside barefoot----utter simplicty. Doggy needed walking. So did my bare doggies! Merry Xmas indeed!
I'm new to the idea of going barefoot but I've noticed an odd change, all of a sudden my feet are less sensitive to gravelly pavement. A few years back, I was too sensitive to go very far. This is inspite of there being no previous training of my feet.
Great, huh? The more you do it, the more you can do it, the more you want to do it. Kinda like that "other great" physical activity...you know....weight loss.
it's the organ regaining its function. no animal on earth is so fucked up to need shoes and man represents no goddamned exception. (most people fails to grasp that social conventions are just that -conventions. a few centuries ago people held 4 sure that no decent civilized people could afford to show in public without a white wig. ancient egypt pharaohs hardly wore sandals: a slave carried them just in case there was some poop to tread on and i can't imagine someone more prideful than a god-king, but we understand that they preferred to keep their feet bare as much as possible. greek athletes trained and raced in the nude. Suetonius tells us that emperor Nero was barefoot around all the time and we understand that he wasn't precisely a tramp. etc... so if going barefoot feels good and safe it is self evident who's right between barefooters and shod people, victims of their morbid squareness)
I'm sick of being a shod person, I wanna revert back to the natural form. I wanna make Mother Nature happy. She doesn't like shod people.
Going barefoot is tremendously fun and healthy...just that you gotta put up with a WHOLE LOTTA shit from...you know..."other people" (boo, hiss). Not us HERE, of course...A little judgment will go a LONG way.
I believe, that it's best to touch Mother Nature with my bare feet, since it's the tender and loving way to walk, rather than tearing holes into her skin with heavy boots. I feel Her love returned, when soft Earth and mud mold themselves to my bare soles. Walking barefoot feels like having a sweet love affair with the Earth, really. Plus: it's the cheapest way of enriching the senses... By baring my feet to the ground, my tactile sense gives me so much more feedback (or feetback? ) from the world around me. Wiggling bare toes, ~*Ganesha*~
