First off feet are pretty cool. I have known my fair share of people who detest feet. Think they are disgusting. Can't stand the sight of them, especially in close proximity. I never have understood this.
True, there are some feet that smell. But don't condemn all feet just because of the strongly stinky few. On the whole feet are pretty amazing. If you didn't have feet it would be quite a struggle to balance, stand up, or walk on those little stubbs. Plus the flexibility in your feet which allows you to stand up on your toes for a few precarious moments also lends the added feature of rendering you temporarily taller - which comes in quite useful for us short Bowmans.
Plus, have you ever noticed how dancers, good dancers, use their whole body in each movement. Every bit of them from the head through the fingertips to the toes are committed to the movement and transformed by it. Can you imagine watching a ballet where the ballerina had no toes to point? One of the iconic features of a ballerina is her distinctive toe shoes. Which brings me to another point. I cannot even begin to count the number of people who are obsessed with shoes. It is somewhat of a guilty pleasure for them. And they have closets full of shoes. Now to all of you shoe lovers - What would you do with all your precious shoes if you had no feet?
That's right. Now you can see the wondrous design of feet.
Now the real point of this was that I was going to tell a short little story, which now, seems very anti-climatic. Oh well. I shall share it regardless.
In the summertime I hardly ever keep shoes on for longer than it takes to walk from whatever building I am in to the car or visa versa. And sometimes not even that long as I simply carry them with me. This tends to result in a bit of confusion for my feet. You see, my older sister explained it to me one day. Feet are used to being covered and they adjust their own temperature accordingly throughout the day. So during the daytime hours when normal people are wearing shoes - their feet are naturally a little bit cooler to accommodate for the wearing of socks and tie-up shoes. Then in the evening or at night when it is time to be at home or go to bed, the shoes come off and the body has to work a little harder to warm them up on its own. A wonderful invention -right? Well, then you have people like me, and Kimi as she told me this theory from her own experience. I hardly wear shoes during the day and if I do they are most certainly some sort of sandal that can be easily removed in no longer than 15 seconds. But what this does is confuse your natural foot temperature system and at night when you still don't have shoes on it goes into crazy and over heats my feet to the point that I can't sleep because my feet are so ridiculously warm. The only solution I have come up with is to run my feet under cold water for a couple of minutes and then go back to bed. Kimi said maybe I should wear shoes more often, but of course we know she wasn't serious.
Now last night I had a stroke of brilliance which now looking back I can't understand why I never thought of this before in my life. In the wintertime when everything else in the world gets icy cold, my feet do the same thing. And just like the nights when my feet are boiling - I can't sleep due to the iciness of my footsies. So last night, because I didn't want to take a full shower, I thought, "why don't I just run my feet under warm water until they heat up?" And I did. And it was fabulous.
And that's what I think about feet. Well, for today at least.
_Loverly
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