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Changing experiences of being barefoot
Mar. 17th, 2010 11:48 amDay 11: 3/16/2010
I had a really interesting experience with being barefoot today.
Up until now, I've been quite self-conscious about my bare feet as I've walked around restaurants and stores. Will someone see me? Will they give me a hassle? Ack! All the glares! But then I got my lovely "soleless sandals" that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chirik came up with. Suddenly, I'm finding my level of self-consciousness dropping considerably to the point where I forget that I'm barefoot. It works in two ways: 1) Because other people look at my feet and think they see sandals, I feel less worried about their reaction. 2) My feet have that comfortable feeling of being wrapped up in something, convincing my subconscious mind that I'm wearing shoes. All in all, it makes barefoot walking start to drift into just another way of walking for me. Although it still has some *lovely* benefits!
I was walking through a Walgreens the other day and suddenly my feet felt very cold! I looked around in surprise to find that I was walking next to the freezer section. It was like having a sixth sense. Instead of just using smell, sight, sound, etc. to determine my surroundings, I received information about my surroundings from my *feet!* How interesting and awesome! That's *exactly* what I've been looking for from this experience. Very cool stuff.
I had a really interesting experience with being barefoot today.
Up until now, I've been quite self-conscious about my bare feet as I've walked around restaurants and stores. Will someone see me? Will they give me a hassle? Ack! All the glares! But then I got my lovely "soleless sandals" that
chirik came up with. Suddenly, I'm finding my level of self-consciousness dropping considerably to the point where I forget that I'm barefoot. It works in two ways: 1) Because other people look at my feet and think they see sandals, I feel less worried about their reaction. 2) My feet have that comfortable feeling of being wrapped up in something, convincing my subconscious mind that I'm wearing shoes. All in all, it makes barefoot walking start to drift into just another way of walking for me. Although it still has some *lovely* benefits!I was walking through a Walgreens the other day and suddenly my feet felt very cold! I looked around in surprise to find that I was walking next to the freezer section. It was like having a sixth sense. Instead of just using smell, sight, sound, etc. to determine my surroundings, I received information about my surroundings from my *feet!* How interesting and awesome! That's *exactly* what I've been looking for from this experience. Very cool stuff.
