## 46 Tale of a pair of Shoes

Hello, we are sisters ....But we are not going to sing the famous song : «Nous sommes deux sœurs jumelles....» from the movie of Jacques Demy. Ok, we are French shoes with a different culture. But we are not really twins because my sister Left is different than me, Right. And because the pillow and the spider (she's always trying to do a ner net inside of us...) told us about this blog, we are talking to you about our life, and of course the life of our owner...You know, that big silly man named Iceman here. Oh, if you knew about his feet, you won'tl probably stay too close, ha ha.

Our life is difficult. Our life can be short... We are happy not to be baby shoes or children shoes. With adults, it's less ephemeral. But we are not like our abandoned friends, the Trek shoes. Some of theses shoes are not living long with shocks, injuries, cold, heat, humidity and above all...hours and hours with human feet. Sometimes they are even bleeding in their shoes. We are very casual, walking shoes. Not dress shoes, but we don't have sparkling colors either. We are not the only one, of course and our friends are not used all year round. We rest especially in winter and when it rains a lot. Water is not our element even if you spray waterproof protection. But you can't imagine how our life is tough. You were looking at the olympics and paralympics but it's often the same for us. Sometimes, when we are in a train, a bus or a subway, we are so close to others, to other pair of shoes that we don't know. Some are very aggressive to defense their «circle of life», as we say. If someone is walking on you
r foot, you don't like it but imagine what we are feeling.

Happily, our life can be great when we are travelling as a second pair to replace our friends. And it's very nice to discover new tracks, paths and landscapes. Our life is made for walking, quite like a song. Running sometimes…We are not well made for running, too heavy. We have running friends but they are not used anymore or just for some special occasions. We knew some volley-ball friends but they are...hum, retired. We would not talk about death, our end. It's a taboo. Some people are able to repair shoes but not every shoes. And you, humans, you prefer to spend money for a new pair of shoes instead to repair. We must admit that good professional for that are becoming rare.

As you can understand, we don't have leather parts because our human is vegan. The leather shoes are so different. They need shoe polish as a food. We are made of fabric and plastic and we only need a wash. Leather shoes are so aristocratic, a kind of caste among the world of shoes. And some leather shoes are racist, making differences between luxury shoes and common leather shoes. Our human is not going into this shops made for them and his dress shoes are very kind but looking like leather shoes. You could not make the difference. 

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