Students go 'One Day Without Shoes'

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[geckodetroya]

how can i help you?? I live in México, i love walk barefoot, and i found TOMS.. i don´t know how can i help... any idea?? please.

[deutschPerson333]

@scullkrusher It really hurts to put on shoes if you are not used to wearing them. Every time I put on shoes it is agonizing. But people might be a little less quick to give TOMS their money if they knew that.

[deutschPerson333]

@scullkrusher If TOMS wants to make a real difference, instead of a "toxic bandaid" then they should take that money and invest it to improve their living conditions. That is a permanent and sustainable solution to a real problem. Frankly I find it absurd companies get away with charging you for a ticket to arthritis, flat feet, hammer toes, foot fungus, ingrown toenails, bunions, blisters, and a host of other deformities. Oh and one thing they dont address in their videos.....

[deutschPerson333]

@scullkrusher On the first part I sort of addressed that in the previous comment, and on the second part I could not agree more. It is on the same plane as taking a drug to fix one problem and cause another instead of fixing the original problem. Shoes do cause body-wide harm especially over time. Would it not be a wiser investment to fix the source of the problem instead of insulating yourself from it at expense to other systems of the body?

[deutschPerson333]

@scullkrusher Now you dont know me so thats a reasonable, but in this case untrue assertion. I hardly got any shots when I was little and never get any now. I don't take any medicine now either. I don't even take cough meds much less antibiotics. The body is pretty well equipped to take on MOST things it is faced with. As far as tetanus goes, obviously its an issue, but think about it, generally you need a wound to get tetanus...something any barefooter will tell you is very very rare.

[scullkrusher]

@deutschPerson333 You fail to see you and the people in impoverished nations have a completely different medical background than you do, especially the children. You have received treatment and prevention. They haven't! If you feel they should be told to walk around barefoot then please donate all you can so they can have the medical aid you have. You have the luxury to walk barefoot without much worry. They don't!

[scullkrusher]

@deutschPerson333 Should say "lives in the United States"

[scullkrusher]

@deutschPerson333 I see on your profile you like the United States. So as a child you most likely received booster shots and took antibiotics while you were sick and still do as an adult. I'm sure you know tetanus is a real disease and a real problem in impoverished nations where people have to walk through filth barefoot without the safety net of modern medicine. Walk up to a child who is suffering from tetanus without medicine and say "It's still a good thing you weren't wearing shoes".

[deutschPerson333]

@scullkrusher By wearing shoes you nearly guarantee yourself to have some form of foot issue at some point in your life. By going barefoot, you risk the occasional scrape and even more rare cut with the endless benefits, better health, stronger feet, better balance, boosted immune system, heightened sensory awareness, the list goes on. And at the end of the day I can walk ON "hazardous" things all day long, but really we do have eyes...it is quite easy to just walk around.

[deutschPerson333]

@scullkrusher You clearly have not seen the places I walk in. I go in places barefoot that most people would be afraid to go in in shoes. I live in a dirty city, step on glass constantly, explore abandoned buildings and ruins several times a week, sprint at top speed through the woods thorns and all, and walk and run through the gravel strewn streets its OK! Fact of the matter is there really are not that many hazards to feet out there. Especially considering it was what you were designed to do.