Healthcare from the Feet Perspective

If one is barefoot and the feet are getting tore up by the rocks, glass, sand,

dirt, cold, heat, rain, snow, etc…

If one has never had shoes and thus does not know how to tie shoe-laces.

Should one reject shoes, because they come with laces?

Laces that one does not know how to tie,

Laces that could cause one to trip and bust one’s head,

Laces that must be replaced,

Laces that present a challenge,

Laces that could be tied together by an enemy,

Laces that the dog could eat, etc…

Or should one except the shoes that one’s feet have never felt,

The shoes that will protect,

The shoes that will shield,

The shoes that encourage feet that dread to walk,

to step, one step at a time on ground traveled before,

one step at a time on ground never traveled!

Is it a matter of cognitive desistance?

Or is it a simple realization that continuing down the same path the same way, shoeless, will

continue to be a challenge yielding the same results;

on the other foot,

wearing shoes, old shoes! new shoes! on virgin feet,

tying laces that have never been tied,

buying socks that develop holes, powders, sprays, and odor-eaters,

shoes to small,

shoes to narrow,

shoes too hard, is better than no shoes at all.

Healthcare, from the feet perspective.

(Moffett, 2010)