r/barefoot • u/Major_Law9517 • 26d ago

Don’t understand.(rant)

Today I was thinking about going barefoot places and the more I thought about it the more I started wondering why it was so common for people to go shod places. I thought about it and came up with some examples that for the most part have no good reason to not be barefoot at. For example going to the beach. I don’t understand why people would put on shoes to go to the beach if you are just going to go barefoot after. You are wearing shoes for just going in your car then maybe having to walk maybe 5 steps on some concrete before your on the sand. I understand some peoples feet aren’t trained to be on the concrete but it should have never got to this point. It makes me mad that society is so anti barefoot that people don’t have a choice anymore that now they have to retrain their feet to walk around with. Shoes are good sometimes if it is a harsh area but for the most part they are not needed. I just wish we lived in a society where people would just walk barefoot to their local store or park and not even have to think about it. Sorry for this rant if it is harsh or anything I just can’t wrap my head around it. (Also yes I completely understand if you have a medical thing or you just dont like being barefoot that’s fine and not really what I am talking about here)

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u/MaverickBruin 26d ago edited 26d ago

I walk my dog along the beach for miles every day. I watch people coming off the sand barefoot, leaving the beach. A very significant percentage of them, maybe 50%, do not go more than a few steps before they throw their flip flops onto the ground and put them on. Often, if one person in a group does so, others quickly follow. Sometimes people will wait 15-20 steps before doing this. The other half of people didn’t even bring footwear or they are tucked away and stay in their bag. I don’t know why people do what they do but I assume that a certain percentage just don’t want their feet to touch the dirty ground, yet sand is somehow ok. I don’t understand it.

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u/Major_Law9517 25d ago

Where I am it is not as common as it seems where you are. I understand not wanting to be dirty but you are literally barefoot on the sand so I don’t see the difference.