Day 7 - Sad shoes

As part of fitting all my junk into a new smaller unit I have been practising being ruthless and culling a lot of things from my life.  (Not a side of my personality that gets a lot of use!) I was putting away my shoes and found a pair of worn out dancing shoes.

Even though these shoes are stinky and falling to pieces they remind me of lots of fun and laughter with my friends. I started wearing these shoes in my private lessons, then when they got a little worn they moved on to being my shoes for group classes. They then became my shoes that were used for social dances as it didn't matter if I used them on bad surfaces because they were so trashed already.

It's not just fun times that these shoes remind me of but also the achievements I make in dancing. The weight loss that made me feel so good, the confidence I found in being able to literally 'strut my stuff' on the dance floor, the struggle and tears of learning new and difficult moves and the accomplishments when I finally 'got it'.

In the end I did manage to throw the shoes in the bin but I will still have those memories ... and I still have another 5 or 6 pairs of dance shoes! :)

P.S. Similar to what my shoe USED to look like ... they didn't even really resemble this by the end!