Apparently these shoes were really despised left outside DSW. |
The other day my daughter was heading to volleyball and couldn't find her shoes. Being that we now wear the same size I told her to just wear mine. Later that night after picking her up, I noticed the shoes in the living room, laces tied super tight and obviously just slipped off that way. I asked my daughter if those were the shoes she wore to practice, which I got a "yeeeesss" which I started laughing. She had gone through volleyball practice wearing my husband's size 11 shoes that look very similar to my ladies size 8 shoes! At that point I was laughing hysterically imagining her tall skinny body with these giant boat like tennis shoes on her feet flopping from place to place. Her coach mentioned later that she noticed a little more laboring to the ball then normal. When asking if the other girls said anything.. she said "well they were just looking at them and said "oh wow did you get new shoes?" in which I started laughing more.
The more I thought about it, it was such a good word picture to me about how we often try to fit into other people's "shoes" and it doesn't usually work. We might be able to still function but usually it isn't natural feeling and most the time won't last long. However, sometimes it is a good lesson to mentally step into someone's shoes to get a taste of what life for them is like. We often find we are thankful where God has us and who He made us to be when we see how ineffective we are, trying to live out someone else's day especially if we want so badly to be them.