After a stagnating day in the office, a good barefoot hike around the 'hood is refreshing for sole and, therefore, soul. Or is it the other way round?
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Pre- and after-work barefooting are great means of being in touch with Earth before entering "the machine" as I like to call that artificial world of work (especially office work). Therefore, I make sure to have my bare soles touching grass and soil before entering the office and also after work to "decelerate" from the demands, deadlines and quotas to meet and master on a daily basis. My feet on Monday morning, before work. In addition to that, I have felt, that the recent events in Japan since last Friday have also affected my need to be barefoot... I felt a greater need to gather more energy to relax and ease my mind last Sunday - that, along with the good weather, led to a longer stay in the park. Of course, the events since March 11 are on my mind and in my thoughts, especially concerning the nuclear havoc, which is about to be the third major "accident" happening during my lifetime. I lived to see (and in one case literally lived through) three such incidents, ranging from the Three Mile Island meltdown in 1979 over Chernobyle in 1986 - the one quite directly affecting me by the relative vicinity of Germany to that site - and now, in 2011, Fukushima-Daiichi. Facing the destructive force of the quake and the tsunami, I was once again reminded that whatever human beings might build to withstand the force of Nature, she will be the stronger one in the end. And, especially, the faith in the infallibility of technology has taken a series of blows and bleeds profusely from many wounds at the moment. It will survive, no doubt (unfortunately, in my opinion), but for the moment, it is severely hurt. That it seems to take destruction, suffering and death in large proportion to make people think and feel is "very sad only", to yet again use a fitting quote used by someone who is emotionally affected even by the slightest unnecessary injury and death. (Neytiri weeping over the death of a viperwolf in Avatar and asking its forgiveness for killing it.) Wiggling bare toes, ~*Ganesha*~
One before-work photo of barefooting in my office outfit - with the much-dreaded shoes hidden in my shoulder bag: In order not to trigger dress code alarms, this is my costume for being at work - as I have shown in other threads, my favourite outfits are far brighter and more untypical for a man - at least, as far as mainstream views are concerned... and my favourite state of being - being skyclad - would totally go beyond all boundaries of (IMO stupid) social conventions of "appropriate" clothing. But that's a different matter, really. Wiggling bare toes, ~*Ganesha*~
