Post summer news!

Wow, long time no speak!

Sorry folks, I let you wait for so long, a lot of things has happened since my last post. Where shall I start? 

Firstly, I have moved again. No, I'haven't left Europe. And no, that doesn’t mean I stopped going barefoot. Even though it’s tough, really tough to meet some fellow barefooters here. But I don’t give up! I look for them! Actually the other day, it was late evening, a man with a dog crossed a street in front of me and I though he was barefoot and my whole heart started to bump from excitement… Until I had a closer look and I discovered he had a pair of beige leather loafers. Gee! Nevermind, there will be a time (I hope so) I meet someone like-minded.

Last week-end I walked through a park, enjoying myself in some fine autumn sun, on a fresh grass and even in a little creek running across the lawn. That was peaceful! No rush of the city, no cars running along, trams, buses, people screaming on the phone.. Just a piece of nature. How relieving! 

I saw a lot of runners around (and they  stared at me, disbelieving the lack of shoes while I was walking down the stony path) that reminded me how bad running shoes are. Well, bad is not the exact word. Health-ruining would suit better. 

To be honest, I have a pair of them myself. And maybe that’s also why I can tell the difference. The whole technique of running is different! I suggest you to watch the video below, the issue is explained quite simple yet very efficent way!

I‘ve also started to attend regularly some sport activities here. Will you be surprised if I tell you that all of them are strictly barefoot?  No, I don’t think you will. ;)

I. e. Contemporary Egypt’s dance. You actually never step on your heel! Most of the class (high-heel ladies) is having a serious trouble with that kind of walking / dancing. How sad.

And now let me ask you a question:

Which barefoot situation brings you the most pleasure, satisfaction or joy?

For me it’s definitely walking the city while it rains.

Well, I can surely think about more pleasurable moments, but I have just remembered a week ago or so when I went rain-walking-and-a-puddle-stepping and I felt like a little excited kid, enjoying every single little moment...    

I will try to remember and put down some extraordinary moments that happened in past 3 months and until then…

Enjoy the life barefooting!

Barefooting Girl is back! :)

Dearest all!

I am still alive!
Not only alive, but also active and growing (rather mentally, my height has definitely stopped increasing) and living and... barefooting? Of course!
I am definitely back with my little stories! Are you glad?

ARE YOU? I hope you are! :)

It’s always very challenging to jump into whole-year-round barefooting. And it is a BIG difference between taking off your shoes every now and then and being barefoot all the time. As you might have experienced. 

Yes, yes, I know, you are telling me that there are situations you can not do whatever you wish (like hanging around with no shoes on), but I would like to invite you to look at those situations from a different perspective: 

Imagine having a magic camera with a special shoe-removing lens. Isn’t it fun? 

How do you feel looking at everybody being barefoot? Is this how you immagine heaven? Well, maybe not, but certainly it’s amusing. 

Now put down your special camera and I’ll give you a bonus – you gain the privilege to remain like in a heaven (that means barefoot). Everybody else has to go back to their boring feet covers (=shoes). Poor them. But you are a special person, so enjoy your bonus, your uniqueness, your being THE ONLY ONE! 

Now look at the same situation you said it was impossible to go barefoot. Do you still think so? Do you really think you have to adjust your behaviour according to what the others do or are you a special person who might become a leader for the others?

Are you aware that on the world there is a plenty of people who dream about doing something different, something extraordinary, something crazy or brave, but they just never do anything because nobody does? Or because they fear being looked at; they are afraid of being judged, they dread to be slendered, they are scared of what reaction people around might be. Weren’t you one of them?

I was. 

But I am not anymore. 

Because if you don’t hit the road, you will never discover new places. 

If you don’t overstep your bounds, you will never grow. Mentally I mean. 

I don’t understand why people are always remaining at the same boring point. But I know one thing. Show them that there’s a way and they will follow. Maybe not immediately. Maybe not when you see them. But if there is a shadow of doubt in their minds, seeing somebody who does it differently might lighten them and show them a new way. A possible way. Nothing is impossible - we just have to realize it.

To conclude I would like to invite you not only going barefoot for all those amazing benefits barefooting brings, but also for tearing down mind-barriers of others and helping to knock down the System’s restrictions which, basicly, make us doing things we don’t want in the way we don’t like. Phew!

If twenty people look at you going barefoot in your town, at least one of them will ask himself an important question: “why?”. And they might try it barefoot themselves to find the answer. 

You leader think about it! ;)

See you soon and don’t forget to enjoy your life BAREFOOTING! 

Spring stars in Prague

Spring is fooling around with us, right? Prague has been pretty cold these days, I wonder what it has been like where you are. I'd say climate is indeed "heels over head". After hot hot days (sunbathing in swim suits at the park!) here we go with a snow – in April!!! That may lead you to believe there are NO BAREFOOTERS AROUND, but it is not true! Surprisingly I met more of them these days then in the previous warmer weeks.

Last week-end everybody was wrapped up in warm coats and all the sudden I met these two American couples down the road. Nothing interesting, you might say. Right, unless you noticed one of the guys (that I assumed to be a father) leading happily the whole group, holding his kid with one hand and holding his shoes with the other, proudly showing his freaking dirty soles. I guess it had been a long time since he took his shoes off. And why not?!? Thumb up for his bravery!

Today I saw something unbelievable – an old lady (she looked like 75+) slowly moving with a walker (a steel structure with four little wheels) jumping on (and later off) the moving stairs... and she did everything barefoot! Wow!
Actually it wasn't difficult to understand why – her "nightmare shoes" (how I immediately called them - high heels, hanging on the walker) would had been a torture even for me and I'm much much younger than her!
But still I am aware that only considering taking them off might have cost her a certain effort and I clap my hands to her. She was my star on the underground!

Let's not forget that not only the society needs to be shocked sometimes, but also our own health needs some refreshment. So why not to kill two birds with one stone and hit the street shoeless? The soles are full of reflex zones which will bless you when you pay attention to them. 
 
So kick your shoes off and enjoy the life barefooting!

To promote barefooting or not?

Hello my dear followers! (One? Two? Dare I say three?!?)
Spring is definitely coming, it's closer and closer... But this is not a subject I wanted to talk about today.

Tom wrote in his last comment that:

We have to promote our lifestyle.

Well, I am not sure if the way WE HAVE TO is the right one.
Maybe we should just stick with our lifestyle and let others to get inspired if they want to?Cause it doesn't really matter how badly you want them to share your point of view, if they aren't ready for that, you'll be in their eyes only a silly man (woman) with no shoes. :)

Actually I do think that barefooting requires a certain mental level. As a matter of fact, you barely ever meet a barefooter with uninteresting life story, right? Everybody has their own reasons why to do that, but hardly ever you hear "I do that just because everybody (or somebody I know) does so". Right?
Unfortunately there are only a few things we may say the same about. Maybe piercing? Dreads? Well, even these were at the beginning just outstanding - tatooed people having some dreads were just akward, but now it's slowly becoming a fashion style. Yeah, we just have to HOPE the same ending for us, barefooters. 

Just imagine the freedom - no shoes for nobody.
Well, actually thinking about that I don't immagine the ideal as a shoe-less society, but as a society, where everybody has a right to decide for themselves if to wear shoes or not without being scared to dead that somebody he knows might see him and think he's a weird folk. Just live and let live. I don't judge you for having your shiny pointy shoes on (difficult, right? ;)) and you don't judge me for not wearing any shoes. You don't stare on me as if I just got off the U.F.O. and you surely aren't afraid to shake hands with me (cause who knows what kind of illness he/she might have, considering he/she is being barefoot for who-knows-how-long-time). Just mind your own business, clothes and shoes included!  

Is this too courageous idea? Is this pure utopia? Maybe! But the past has turned few utopias into a real life, so why couldn't be this one of them? ;) We never know! So remeber: when this concept becomes true, I will claim myself to be his founder, I become rich and famous and you all can say that you were present when the idea was born! Hahaha, xaxaxa, muhehe!

Cheers, stick with your cool lifestyle (no shoes at least home if outside is still too cold for you as it is for me), be an inspiration for as many people as you can and (last, but not least):
Enjoy the life barefooting!