SHOE LOGIC

Today’s blog is about all the life scenarios that are just like shoe shopping. Different object, same excuse!

1.         You can’t wear comfort

Only men and women with really bad taste in shoes buy shoes merely because the shoe looks comfortable. There was a time in my life that I would buy a heel and wear it regardless of the fact that I needed to move from class to class with that shoe. It wouldn’t matter, the shoe looked good.

This is a typical woman syndrome. Where women suffer for beauty.  Have you ever tried to lose five kilograms? It’s really hard, tasteless protein shakes, raw fruits and vegetables and a hell lot of gym time. Who needs comfort when looking good is at stake? Hell, looking good is comfort!

2.    I’ll make a plan if it doesn’t fit

Ever found a shoe that speaks to your heart and it’s either too small or too big? Sometimes the discomfort is worth it. You can work with it.

I have a pair of heels that I’ve had to give away simply because they are way too big. I’ve tried stuffing them with all sorts of alien cushioning. They are still too big. I love these shoes but I can never wear them. I just had to let them go.

I bet you’ve had a relationship just like this. Where the guy looked good. Said all the right things. And yet he made you realise that that long list of requirements that you have isn’t really what you thought you wanted.

3.    I’ll make it work

You find a perfect shoe. You don’t have a single item of clothing that will match the shoe in style or colour. You don’t have an outfit that could ever live up or down to the shoe, yet you buy it anyway thinking that you can make it work.

For the next year of your life you become obsessed with finding an outfit for this shoe. You try everything, and yet nothing seems to work. You wake up one morning regretting why you bought the shoe, by then it’s too late to take it back. The shoe is stuck taking up precious space in your wardrobe. And you keeping holding on to the one day it will work out?

You might have wanted it (be it your job, your friend, your man) so much that you ignored all the faults and all the fundamental things that aren’t working out. I figure if it hasn’t worked out after a while it’s time to let it flow Toni Braxton style, accept that the risk hasn’t paid off and that sometimes one day never comes.