SHOES - My Weakness

Shoes were originally invented for protection.

To protect human being from sharp objects, COLDNESS,

and to aid him in making his way over the rocks and hot grounds.

Shoes THEN are for survival...

Shoes NOW are more than just for survival...

SHOES has become a symbol for social status...

SHOES has embarked the WORLD OF Fashion...

SHOES has set the definitions of GLAMOUR

During my childhood, I had never been blessed to get an extra pair of shoes. I got to have a new pair every time a new school year opens or a school year closes.

I never got the chance to pick from a variety. Mom only bought me a new pair when the old one was already torn.

That's always the case even when I was in high school.

But when I finally got my kinda chance to taste some kinda freedom during college, I'd spend most of my Sunday afternoon walking along the shabby streets of Pala-o looking for my favorite ukay-ukay pair.

Shoes from the flee market or what we call here in the Philippines as "Ukay-ukay" (literally means, "to dig through", is used to call street stalls and establishments who sells used imported garments)

can be bought from around 250 PHP to as cheap as 10 PHP.

So it had always been a haven for a student like me who greatly relied from my parent's allowance.

I can still remember the first pair I was so engrossed to spend my spare 100 PHP. It was some velvet two inch pointed shoe. Looked so fab on dresses and skirts plus its purple so I never took any doubt to buy it. Only did I realize that it's more than half an inch of my shoe size when I started to wear them on a Sunday. Wait I will show them to you when I'll find it.
So I sold them to a friend and she was so happy to have them.

Since, we've only been talking about shoes. Let me share to you a story that revolved around a shoe but greatly overwhelmed me. It's a foreign movie about two siblings who shared one single shoe because of an uneventful loss of the younger sister's only shoe. Do have time to watch the movie and Enjoy!

"Children of Heaven"
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Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10