last night i watched jay leno show (or was it conan o brien) and they featured a new coffee table book that had pictures of female celebrities wearing nothing but their Choos - Jimmy Choos (alright, bad ass stilletos!) and i could not help but feel envious -- of their shoes.
i have always had a fetish for nice footwear- strappy heels, stilletos, running shoes, sneakers, sports sandals - you name it. the minions of the credit company can always count on me to have at least a pair on my bill.
i know, i know, i should cut back on my shoe shopping sprees but i cannot help but be drawn to beautiful things in general, especially if they complement my other beautiful things, like that wicked skirt for instance.
my friends and i would find ourselves bound by these moments of weakness and i have proven myself weak in a couple of instances when i got home with several pairs of shoes. case in point: feeling imeldific
most of the shoes i bought are useful. some of them i really loved to the point that they had given up on me. i really miss that strappy pair with strings that you could tie up a la ballerina shoes, and those non-marking rubbershoes that i recently put to sleep.
there are some who are just there for sheer face value, like the tan shoes that looked great but inflicts so much pain when i wear them that i now call them "trauma" shoes.
scanning through this entry, i cannot help but notice an eerie resemblance of women's quasi-relationship with shoes and of human relations in general - dependable shoes: friends and family; trophy shoes: flings.
man. that sure did not sound right.
i would like to believe that there is more to feelings than physiological chemical outbursts, such that responses would differ on the kind and level of stimuli involved (i.e. shoes NOT EQUAL to human interaction; endorphins from eating chocolates NOT EQUIVALENT to those you get from that loving feeling).
for now, i will let go of that urge to go existential with shoes (or feelings or chocolates for that matter) and be content in appreciating them from a distance and resisting the urge to have them as often as i do.
Currently listening to: traffic
Currently feeling: hungry
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