shoes

in trying to downsize my belongings i have acquired over the last few years of my life, i realized i have a lot (and i mean a lot) of shoes.  i also realized i don't have many friends with a similar foot size, who would wear a stiletto.

its amazing how much "stuff" one acquires through ones life...being only 31, i can not imagine what my apartment would have looked like in another 30 years.  as part of this journey, i decided (really there was no choose) to downsize my "stuff".  i am hoping i can fit everything i need in my car for the next year or two...we will see how that really works out.

i have a lot of shoes...a lot.  the top on my closet was stacked high with shoe boxes, full of shoes i may or may not have ever worn.  one pair i wore once to a job interview. another in vegas for my 30th birthday (they gave me blisters),  two of the same shoe in different colors since they were on sale.

shoes! i love shoes.  i blame this on my mother.  she loved shoes, and shopping.  i remember trying to wear her shoes around the house when i was little, before they fit. i remember being so excited when someday i would have the same size foot and be able to have all these shoes to myself. i also remember when my foot became to big to fit into my mothers size 6 shoes...this was not the plan.

so i ended up with shoes...lots of shoes. a lot of shoes that i will not be able to take with me, since they could fill the trunk alone.  they had to be passed along to a fellow shoe lover, who would love them just as i had. my dad's girlfriend had just the person, her daughter...and who better than a fashionista who lives in manhattan.

i left a box of these shoes with my dad to pass along.  during a phone call later, he asked how it was that there were so many unworn shoes there, why did i buy them and not wear them?  i really had no good answer other than i felt i had to have them at the time, and that was it.  his girlfriend came to my rescue and explained it so well...its an experiment, you get a shoe, and maybe it works, maybe it doesnt, but thats how you create your personal style.  she related it to how he will spend thousands of dollars on material for a new invention, and if it doesn't work, he just throws it away.  same as my shoes.

i love shoes, and will always love shoes.  shoes.