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waiting for the station

"When we reach the station that will be it !" we cry. "When I'm 18." "When I buy a new 450 SL Mercedes Benz." "When I put through college." "When I have paid off the mortgage." "When I get a promotion." "When I reach the age of retirement, I shall live happily ever after." Sooner or later we must realize there is no station. No one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us. "Relish the moment" is a good motto, especially when coupled with Psalm 118.24: "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today. So, stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot m

top 10 reasons why i go barefoot

10. Saves me money by not buying shoes and socks 9. Saves time and more practical 8. Builds my confidence - it does take confidence to be different 7. I'm more relaxed 6. My feet are healthy - no infections or deformities from wearing shoes 5. My feet don't sweat and stink 4. Great sensations - I'm able to feel whatever is beneath my soles 3. I feel free and natural 2. My feet get dirty - yep, it's cool to have dirty feet, he he he! 1. It's simply fun!!

antiques

besides the mall, i also like to shop around my neighborhood. i love antiques, and although i can't afford to buy most of them, i enjoy looking at them a lot especially if i can do it while barefoot. there's a couple of antique stores near where i live and i've seen others go in there barefoot as well. i love visiting antique stores. there's a certain mystique surrounding antique objects. not too long ago i visited an antique store in my neighborhood, and the girl who attended it was barefoot. i thought, wow, that's cool!

barefoot on the bus

one of my favorite things is to ride on the bus barefoot. it was kinda nerve wrecking in the beginning 'cos most of the time i would be the only one barefoot and most other people were well dressed getting home from work. but i had seen a few other barefooters on the bus so i decided to give it a try. after that it became easier every time. i would get a few looks but i would just ignore them and assume that they were all jealous :) like one time it was a rainy day and i rode the bus home from school barefoot; there was an older man sitting behind me wearing tennis shoes, but when he got off he was barefoot and carrying his shoes in his hand. that proved my point, right? :)

driving barefoot

there is only one way to drive: barefoot! :) you can feel the pedals 100% and therefore have better control. not to mention the feeling of freedom. i started driving barefoot even long before i became a regular barefooter. actually that's the best way to start if you're kinda shy (like me) about being barefoot 'cos after all, who can see you if you're barefoot in the car? unless of course, if you have company in the car. contrary to what some people say, driving barefoot is not illegal. even if it were, how could they enforce it? it's just a myth or urban legend propagated by those that are against barefooting! so, don't buy into it. you can click here for reference in case you're skeptical. hey, do you like antique sports cars? i often dream of driving an antique sports car barefoot and shirtless with the top down on a gorgeous spring day! :)

shopping mall

my favorite shopping mall is windward mall on oahu, hawaii. the sign by the escalators says: 'for your safety, customers in bare feet or with strollers please use the elevators' which means they sanction bare feet! :) that's about the only shopping mall i know of that has special signs like that. signs at other malls simply say: 'no bare feet'. so i love walking around in that mall even if i don't buy anything. btw, one day i saw a barefoot girl going up one of the escalators and nothing happened to her, i mean she didn't get electrocuted or anything :) so i did the same and i'm still in one piece :) talking about shopping malls, read this interesting story about a girl who became a barefooter after she went barefoot to the mall .

encounters with kids

one time i was riding on the elevator in my apartment complex together with a little boy about 4 years old and his mom. the boy stared at my bare feet and pointed them to his mom without saying anything. the mom then said, 'yeah, he's not wearing any shoes!' and smiled at me. i just smiled back and nothing more was said till i got off on my floor. another time i was in a grocery store looking at some stuff on the shelf and there was a little girl about 3 years old standing nearby. she turned toward me and immediately her eyes were fixated on my bare feet, and her face expressed total disbelief as her jaw started to drop. her dad was looking at other stuff on the shelf and wasn't even paying attention to her daughter or me. nothing was said and i finally walked away kind or ammused.

barefoot vacation

a while back i had a friend from new zealand who visited me in hawaii with his family. he is also a barefooter and it was nice to get together after corresponding only through email for a while. we had a good time and here's the email he sent me after he went back to new zealand. [written in Hawaii] From a barefooting perspective, thanks to having conversed with you, you were right--barefooters are more prevalent in NZ than it is here, but rubber slippers (thongs) are more prevalent here. However, out of the places we've been to here, I've seen a few barefooters; and not much resistance or stares about it; which I would still consider barefoot friendly. [continued on the flight on the way back home...] We had to re-pack our suitcases in order to fit my running shoes in. Otherwise, I would have had no choice but to wear them. Thank goodness I didn't have to. I left the hotel barefooted into the six-windowed limousine, which had trouble turning around corners (not bad for