Do you live with the same abandon you did in childhood?
By tanniebabe78
@tanniebabe78 (2934)
United States
August 6, 2008 1:54pm CST
Or has society managed to dull your sense of spirit? Do you walk barefoot outside? Or listen to the germaphobes that holler all about what you are tracking into your house?
I have been dulled. It pains me to admit it, but I broke free some and walked part of the way home from the library with bare feet. It felt heavenly.
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@1grnthmb (2055)
• United States
9 Aug 08
I do what I want to do and do not let people tell me otherwise. But then my body limits me to what I can really do. Now if I tried walking out side in the summer with my bare feet they would be blistered because of the heat. But what I do in my own house is a different story. But then I am also limited because I have children. I dear, I can not walk around naked any more. Darn.
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@jands1 (835)
• United States
6 Aug 08
To some extent we all are. It is part of the process that has enabled the human species to not only survive, but to thrive.
Not only that, some things we did as children, well, honestly, they weren't the nicest, and in many cases, we were lucky to survive.
But, what is great as an adult, is that we have the *choice* to do these things. I choose to wander barefoot in my home. I choose to "Cloud Chase". I choose to jump on my bed. I choose to twirl in the rain.
I just cant wait to move out of the French Quarter so I can be barefoot more. After what a CSU told me they find in my neighbourhood, it is all I can do to not just wrap myself in hand sanitizer. LOL
@tanniebabe78 (2934)
• United States
6 Aug 08
lol. Is that because of Katrina or just New Orleans in particular?
@jands1 (835)
• United States
6 Aug 08
LOL
A little of both. Other places` homeless *still* flock to New Orleans thinking they will get free money (doesn't exist) and do not seem to care what mess they leave or where. *cough*
In addition, it has always been dirty since a mayor many years back turned into a Tourist Destination. Many of us French Quarter residents do not go to Bourbon Street because we work hard to keep our areas clean and visitors just refuse to use the hundreds of public garbage cans.
I do not even think I can post here what that CSU woman told me she finds on a regular basis all over the French Quarter. EEPS! LOL
I do walk barefoot all around my lush courtyard. And a few feet from the carriage gates. But, no way. I would not even do it if I was double dog dared! LOL No matter how hot it is, my courtyards bricks are always cool and feel so delicious under my feet. We are careful to not remove too much of the moss and lichens because they just add to the wonderful feeling. Though we do have to as they destroy the bricks.
@tanniebabe78 (2934)
• United States
6 Aug 08
lol! Well I might like to know what I am stepping into when I go into the French Quarter if I ever visit.... Hmmmm, we may have to talk just before then. lol. And you can't visit New Orleans without checking out the French Quarter. Some little crazy man named Richard Simmons swears there are the best Pralines in the world there. 
@lazeebee (5461)
• Malaysia
11 Aug 08
Yup, we can't afford to, without jeopardising our image as business professionals or adults.
How I miss walking barefoot (like you, especially in the rain), laugh aloud at an idiotic client, say 'I wanna go home, I'm tired' at a boring function or sit on the ground in the garden and disturb the ants! 
@tanniebabe78 (2934)
• United States
6 Aug 08
Yes, but I guess I wanted to know how much of the hype about all these things in the world have changed us. Like germs and bacteria, the things we let our kids do... How much of that stuff affects you on how you live from before as a child?
I remember my mom not only allowed bare feet, but encouraged it and even went herself, all the time. So what is different now? Why are they now worried about what we track in, when we have been tracking it in for centuries and not killed us yet?
@jands1 (835)
• United States
6 Aug 08
Most Westerners have fallen into a "June Cleaver" mentality without even realizing it. And, if they bothered to take a long hard look at themselves, would have to agree. Perhaps an updated referance would be how the wife from "American Beauty" kept her home. See what happened to her? I don't want that. Go barefoot! Track in dirt. It's going to be cleaned anyway right? :D
