Fancy if shoes would just vanish

I agree. I have been barefoot for a couple of years now but not completely like I wear shoes out etc. but in my personal spaces I go barefoot. I don't feel pride for it or anything, like the only thought process I have is oh I might take my shoes and socks off now. I get sticking up for what means a lot to you but I just don't see the salvation of humanity coming down to who the fuck wears shoes or not and I'm fully in belief that if shit did hit the fan in the world you'd better have a good pair of shoes of boots with you. Cause when I'm in the apocalypse and I'm hungry, you're gonna be needing shoes to outrun me cause Irm's gonna eat you.

 

As someone who's been to both sides of the fence, maybe I can offer you some insight.

After a youth spent wearing shoes everywhere outside of showers and sleepy time, my toenails developed a rather inconvenient fungal infection. Cheesy stink, yellow, brittle toenails and all that jazz. I cured it during a winter about a decade ago by taking my footwear off, and applying almost daily snow baths to my feet for 6 months, while also keeping my nails clipped as short as possible to remove as much of the infection as I could. Yes, these feet have been to snow and ice unprotected. The end result was that by next spring, I had regained fully odorless feet, with no brittleness in my nails and no yellow in sight on my nails and skin. Instead, I had healthy pearly whites again, that didn't break irregularly, if I accidentally bumped them into something.

This developed into appreciation of constantly dry, non-smelly feet. I gave up wearing socks where I absolutely don't have to wear them, and I only wear shoes when I leave the house. During the summer months, not even then, unless there's an emergency, or something formal that demands it. My winter barefooting turned into a habit that, over time, has allowed me some resistance against your common cold/flu. I can't clinically prove this of course, beyond what I've experienced myself, and it's by no means a complete defense. But my personal experience is that I've been having less, and easier sick days ever since I started doing controlled snow walks. Either that, or I've been a lucky bastard during the last decade.

Then there's my back. Compared to past, when I still wore shoes... If I, for example, stopped in front of the magazine rack in a store to check out the latest papers, back when I was still a shoes everywhere-guy, my feet and spine began to hurt quite fast if I stood in one place for longer than few minutes. Now, if I do the same in my bare feet, I can be more comfortable and painless for longer periods of time. I especially noticed this in the summer of 2015, when I was visiting another town, and decided to leave my shoes in the car and just zipped back and forth from place to place barefooted. After half a day of running around, I still felt like I was ready for more, whereas previously, with shoes, I was guaranteed to start hurting somewhere along the line. Turns out that while barefoot that day, I indeed had better ergonomics. It gets talked about frequently, and there's indeed some truth to it.

Then there's the purely mental aspect. I've learned to appreciate the sensations that I can get when various surfaces stimulate my soles. It can be quite relaxing and energizing. In hindsight, I now regret being such a pussy as a kid, and missing out on a barefoot childhood.

 

Here's a remastered version of "Skater Dater." Much clearer.

 

I don't know. If you hate barefooting, I don't know why you'd go through the effort of making an account and coming to this site.

 

why not? this site has a million topics. you shouldn't avoid the entire site just because you don't like one of those topics. i find incest pretty gross, but i still come here.

 

I have the clear cut impression that with this post I kinda shat in the fan here.