My new thing is wearing nice clothes when leaving the house, but let’s set the bar. I live in faded, blue jeans and t-shirts, so dressing up means nice jeans, a silk shirt and smart looking shoes. 😉
As mentioned in Feel the Music, my friend and I met for our monthly coffee/tea. I wanted to wear something nice and took time to choose my outfit the evening before. Some of my prettier shirts call for ironing and my people are important enough to use an iron if needed.
When we met, she appreciated my choice in clothing, but there was one small problem. I was wearing the wrong shoes. These shoes were one of my favorite ‘slip on and go’ pair of shoes. I remembered them being comfortable enough to walk in all day long, but it’d been a while since I’d worn them and they were crucifying my feet!
It was all I could do to get back home in them. It was odd how they were once so comfortable, but turned into shoes from the devil himself. Entering the house, I kicked them off with a sigh of relief. This made me wonder what else in my life looked comfortable, but capable of pain.
I sat on the edge of my bed to inspect my foot and a blister had formed above the instep. My daughter stood in the doorway inquiring what happened and I told her about the devilish shoes. She said, “You slap three band-aids on it and keep moving.” It didn’t call for three, but I did slap a band-aid on it to continue stepping through life.
Keep living life my darlin’, and stock up on band aides.
“God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.”
Zig Ziglar
Letitgocoach 
Maybe we have to break in certain parts of our pre-pandemic lives again? The option to decide whether it’s worth the pain or effort to get comfortable in them again, like with your shoes, could be looked at the way I sometimes look at unexpected changes, as opportunities for new or restarts.
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Fabulous perspective. I’ve worn those shoes several times since posting this, just to see how they’d do. They did better each time, and now they are comfortable once again. I didn’t take into account how much time had passed since they’d been worn, so all they needed was a little patience. Thank you for sharing.
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Nothing worse than shoes not feeling right
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And it was so unexpected. Those shoes are going in the firepit next time it’s lit. 🙂
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😂
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Great advice! I’ve had that happen too…do our feet grow and change? 🌟💛
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You would think we’d be past the growing stage, but they could change shape? Thank you for sharing lovely one. xxx
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I love your daughter’s advice!!!
Blessings! ♥♥
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Thank you! Yeah, it’s like she’s heard that from someone before. 🙂 Blessings to you my darling. ❤
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