Ear to Ear Smile.
Simple fact: I Love Shoes. Beautiful shoes easily top my list of greatest loves in life. The list may be long, but that just means that I have passion for a lot of things in my life, not that my shoes mean don’t actually mean much to me. I don’t want anyone getting that thought into their head. My brother once pointed out to me that if I wore one pair of shoes a week, it would last me over a year. I’m nineteen, and starting collecting shoes just two years ago when I move out of home. They make me happy. Shoes are my therapy.
Until recent months, I couldn’t remember a time I had entered a shoe store and not left without at least one pair of beautiful, shiny, new shoes. And a smile. Pure happiness. It may not seem quite normal to some people to feel your heart speed up when you fall in love with a pair of shoes, but c’mon. Has anyone seen the show on TLC, “My Strange Addiction”? Today I watched half an episode about a woman who was addicted to her twelve teddy bears that she treated like her children. I’m talking putting them in a high chair at a restaurant. It was just too weird. So in comparison, a shoe addiction is nothing. And who doesn’t feel great in great shoes? Plus, heels make your bum look just fabulous. The pain is always worth it, whether it be in your feet or your chequing account.
Clearly, I can babble about shoes. My point was that today, which wasn’t the greatest of days (not that anything technically went wrong, but nothing went right either), I fell in love with a pair of shoes in my new InStyle magazine. Charles David, you are perfection. Suede, 4 inch pumps, colorblock. You can’t go wrong. And affordable which is always a plus. Especially since going back to school this fall is going to put a major dent in my shoe budget. Seeing these shoes instantly put a smile on my face. They were probably the highlight of my day, next to the great food. One more fact: I love food. But we’ll get into that another day. Its amazing that these shoes could set off an entire thought process about how the little things should mean as much as the big things. Yes, a great love is great. Yes, pregnancy is beautiful. But these aren’t your everyday moments. The moments when something so simple and satisfying happens, and you forget about it seconds later. I make an effort not to do that, because every memory of a bad day can be replaced with a memory of something that made you smile. An ear to ear smile. And that’s how I will be going to sleep. With my head in a shoe-shaped clouds and a smile on my face.
