No Shoes...But I've Got Feet!

At some point in life we all reach the years I choose to call the years of “early unnecessary mid-life self-inflicted crisis”… you know the years where you have issues you think are issues until you have issues such as a child’s entire existence being dependent on you, then school fees, then your kid not wanting to go to college or wanting and going only to think being a Satanist is cool then decide to have a group marriage; 4 people and a horse…or stock market failing and you losing all your money when you’ve just started your sex change, now you’ve taken all the hormones but don’t have any money ‘cos no one will buy your shares you were hoping on cashing in to finish up your metamorphosis; now you’re gonna be a mustached guy with tits, female butt, deep voice and thinning hair… yeah those are real life issues. Yeah, we all think not finding the boots to match the new pair of contacts you just got or even not having the perfect dress to wear to that wedding where that hopeless ex of yours will be at with his new dumb girlfriend that you’re a gazillion times better than is an issue, or maybe we just wish certain things in life came with user guides. Wouldn’t it be great to have the woman’s guide on how to castrate the philandering boss without repercussions, or how to know what’s really going on in his head when he’s brooding or even if she is true or lied that time she said what she said…or you thought she said or…whatever!

I remember a framed picture of a beggar my father brought home one day; it simply read “I used to cry that I had no shoes until I saw a man with no feet”! Didn’t make much sense to me at 13, but sitting at my computer wanting to write a completely different kinda note I found my thoughts straying to this phrase again. I might not have boots in colours to match Joseph’s coat, heck I haven’t even worn contacts in 3 or 4 years, I might not have a killer dress and maybe my last ex was so long ago I can’t even remember, philandering or not I’m glad I have a boss, I might not have a man right now to wonder about or even care if you were honest or not, if for that one time you had to lie save me, save yourself or even save the world and other planetary bodies. Right now I’m just happy I have you, my family I hand-picked or maybe that I ran into, for some of you we disliked each other on sight, others we hit it off like a house on fire but I wouldn’t have it any other way because I can call you friend!