How I met my sole-mate

This post is about how I learnt a lot of things about myself and things in general, recently.

I recently discovered that I have flat feet.. and as that very basic fact registered itself there was another little discovery that was embedding itself onto my brain. That, was the fact that I learnt that there is actually a ‘condition’ called flat feet. The word condition is obviously used very loosely.

The above facts were gleaned from severe heel pain resulting from walking around New York city for a couple days wearing the wrong shoes. Curious fact #3: There are some shoes which could actually be the wrong ones for a given person. I discovered this after I switched to sandals on day 3 of our trip. This is perhaps the only time I could say, if there is pain, there will almost certainly be no gain.

Before now, I used to think that one could just walk into a shoe store and pick up a nice pair of relatively comfortable looking (and feeling) shoes, when they are on a 50% sale…and I was doing that until recently. Owing to fact #1 (I have flat feet), it seems that the last pair of shoes that I owned were so not the right ones for me. So we set out to find me the perfect pair of shoes (didn’t mean to sound like Cinderella, but unfortunately this is all I could come up with using my limited writing skills) and after trying what seemed like about 20-25 different pairs, we finally found my sole mate.

After the elaborate sole searching, it seems that New Balance is the only brand of shoes that fits me well, and the excruciating heel pain brought about by the various shoes I owned earlier is no longer there.

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