A word to the wise:

[conuly]

Healthy feet don't smell. Feet smell because they're kept in dark, damp, enclosed spaces. Your hands would smell too if you kept them in gloves all the time!

Healthy feet don't hurt either. Feet only hurt when there is something wrong - often the result of being kept in tight enclosed spaces with no ability to move.

With a small number of exceptions, it is safe to say that bare feet = healthy feet.

Comments

[appadil.livejournal.com]

Hmm.... why not split the difference and wear sandals/thongs? Your feet can breathe like they were meant to, and you don't have to worry about stepping on broken glass, 4-sided dice, loose nails, and other horribly pointy things.

[conuly]

I'm not worried about stepping on any of those things now. I'm perfectly capable of seeing things and not stepping on them. Plus, contrary to popular belief, there just isn't very much broken glass, loose nails, or horrible pointy things littering the sidewalks.

[conuly]

Additionally, I don't go barefoot so that my feet can breathe. That's just a side bonus. I go barefoot for the same reason I don't wear gloves - because I like to feel things. I don't like the sensation of not knowing what I'm standing on because my feet are being deliberately cut off from the world.

And, finally, sandals? Don't allow your feet to move naturally.

[pehanoie.livejournal.com]

Now there's something I can understand. That's one of my arguments for favoring the manual truck over the automatic van. The van has cushioning or something- anyway, curves I go over all the time, I never feel them in the van. Then in the truck, it rattles the whole thing. Makes me feel like the van is lying to me, it does. But it works in reverse- that truck is drafty and I'm always looking behind me, or feel I should. So you got being lied to or that over stimulization stuff as your choices.

I like bare footing. I especially like it when your feet start to get all hard and used to it. I used to do it quite a bit more when I lived in the woods.

So the bare feet + man made floors hurt everyone's feet? I thought it was the flat footed stuff. I can't even wear boat shoes. I love boat shoes! Can't expalin it. So simple and weird looking, no weird hanging parts like sandles, so many colors. But they sure do make everything hurt after a couple hours.

My brother has it worse- something about the balance nearly screwed up his back once and now he has to get these casts made for all his shoes. Considering all I have to do is buy slightly more expensive sneakers, I'm pretty well off.