I bought a new pair of debate shoes yesterday. The shoes that lasted me for the first four years of my debate career have finally given the job over to a new pair. Different people buy different shoes for different reasons, but I really don't like buying shoes. New shoes are... well, new. They feel funny. Joy also got a new pair of shoes yesterday, so I get her old ones! I have had my Tennis Shoes for a couple years, and Joy had them for a while before that. I really really like them, but Joy insists that they have served their duty and that I should take her old ones. (more like just can't believe they don't really have a sole) Besides, they are Nike, we are against Nike.
New shoes are like a lot of new things. They don't really belong to you, they aren't yours. Yeah, sure you have paid the money to buy a pair of shoes (or whatever it is that you bought) but how can they be yours if they are still just like every other pair in the shoe store? They don't have you in them. You probably will never find another pair of shoes that are exactly like mine, because there is not another pair of shoes that have been through the same things mine have. I love my shoes... and I don't want to see them go.
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Usually I just can't find any shoes that actually fit me. So I steal my mom's shoes and she gets new ones. She will then break them in, and then I take them and wear them out. And then my mom gets mad at me for wearing out her good shoes. And then she gets new shoes... :-)
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