Socks and Voting

I hold socks as having very little if any importance.

Although I certainly own socks, I rarely wear socks for any other purpose than to warm up my feet. I almost never wear socks with shoes.

But this week I did wear socks with shoes and I couldn't remember the last time I wore a pair but it has to be at least a year.

As a result of my non socks wearing my shoes tend to have a bad odor, which doesn't really have anything to do with anything other than it is a fact, and certainly a draw back to my inability to wear socks with shoes.

I will call it an inability.

It may have been about 10 years ago I gave up on the sock wearing, as my feet tend to get really hot with socks and my feet are like a temperature gauge to my whole body, so I would walk around really hot all the time- until I stopped wearing socks....

At some point in my adulthood I gave up on certain things I didn't ever enjoy doing but did as I felt as though I should.

It was 17 years ago I stopped wearing dresses. I know this because this was at my sisters wedding to her now ex husband.

Granted I was not ever a big dress wearer, yet this was the demarcation in my mind- and I will say without hesitation I will never wear a dress again. If I am invited to an event which requires me to wear a dress, I just won't be going- so there's that.

It really wasn't until this year I gave up on the entire concept of exercise and democracy. We had a gym membership at a really cool gym until August of this year, and I think I went five times over the year we had the membership.

My relinquishment of most things physical came gradually, I gave up hiking and then bike riding, and then really any organized sport, and then any exercise all together. It was around the time I decided to abandoned any self imposed diet restrictions that I lost 30 lbs.

I may never vote again, as I really don't believe in the process- and in the end I really don't think it matters- it was such an enormous relief to me to let go of the idea that what I thought or said or did made any difference in regard to the political landscape of the country.

I know the argument- if everyone felt this way imagine who would be in power...like a potential presidential candidate who has a reality show and whose daughter, after becoming a teen mother, is a finalist on "Dancing With the Stars" (although the daughter is neither a dancer or a star) .

Imagine a person who has shown to not understand, or to completely misunderstand basic legal and political concepts in which our entire system is based as the leader of the free world.

If people gave up on democracy maybe a person like that would be taken seriously by an entire political movement....

So I will continue to not wear socks.