Barefoot

Yesterday on the bathroom I was reading our daily calendar and read: if you didn't walk barefoot for a long time, it is sensational. In every foot there are 200.000 nerve endings which can be stimulated! It costs you at most a few frown glances when you'll come across other walkers. Although it is gorgeous and even healthy. Well, if you know me a little, you can imagine that when I read this, I could barely wait to went out for a walk, and I would absolutely love the frown glances from the others: I love to be a little - or perhaps more than a little - extraordinary. Nevertheless I promised my little sister to play a game with her and when I promise something, I need to do it. When we were playing I saw lovely raindrops fall out of the dark sky and I imagined me walking in the rain, barefoot. I knew I had some throw-away-plastic-rain-cape and it would fit perfectly in my other imagination. While we were playing it was me who was watching to the window, longing to go outside. You already know what I'm going to say now: when we finished the game, the sun was shining, the sky coloured blue instead of the grey clouds and my whole imagination was dissolved in a few minutes. 

One big advances of living below see-level is that Holland is full-build with dikes and I am living near to a river, so I am living near to a dike, with grass to have funny walks. After dinner I used to have a walk with the dogs - which is normally a little round - and decided to have my barefoot walk. But probably I need to think better before I am going to do something.... I went to the dike and put of my shoes for a walk and in a few moments I saw a few creatures I do not like at all. Then I came to the discovery that they were not with a few, but with thousands and they scared me so much that I couldn't feel happy on my bare feet, I couldn't feel the 200.00 sensational stimulated nerve endings. I should have know! I tried to relax and feel and take a few steps, but put on my shoes and felt a lot more comfortable during the walk. 

I wanted to know how the 200.000 nerve endings would feel, so I tried all over on the road. Yes, it was sensational and even painful and I learned to have these barefoot walks when the weather is better and my scary little fawning friends are deep hidden in the earth. 

To make this walk not so sad I took some pictures of the breathtaking sky: