Walking with a limp

a tale of unsolicited moralising for people with feet

For the past couple of weeks I have been removing a wart on my little toe, by gently dubbing it with acid every night before bed. This has resulted in me currently having a small hole on my toe, which occasionally hurts to walk on. Not a lot, just enough to be irritating. Just enough that it’s on your mind all day, because you cut too deep into the dead tissue last night, and you happen to work on your feet all day.

The animal instinct, when you have a small painful sore spot on your foot, is to walk with a limp, to take pressure off it. When you walk with a limb, you change your centre of gravity such that you minimise pressure on the sore spot. If you are permanently crippled, this may be a necessary maneuverer. But lets face it. You are not permanently crippled, you just have a little sore spot.

If you walk with a limb, this changes everything about how your entire body is being stressed by gravity, when you walk around. Now your whole body is fucked, because you choose to centre your being around your Deformity.

Your Deformity has become your centre of being, and in turn, your whole being is being deformed. You fuck up your hips, you back, your joints. What you should have done, is twofold: You should have Ate The Pain and Centred your Being around The Good.

In this case that would be, just walking normally and not limping. It’s gonna hurt a little bit in your toe when you walk on it, but really, its not even bad enough that it makes you make pain sounds or flinch or anything, it’s really a mild pain. and now, you don’t fuck up your hips and your back, by putting them under weird stress and pressure all day. Then, when your Deformity heals, you are nice and normal. If, however, you walk with a limp, then once your deformity heals, you have a new deformity to worry about, in your curved spine and sore hips. Now what are you gonna do wise guy.

When you act like you should get something “in return” for your pain and suffering, you are just fucking yourself up worse. If you are sad about not having any friends or girlfriends, eating a jar of ice-cream to “counterbalance” your “pain” is centring your gravity around your Deformity. When you smoke cigarettes because you are sad and edgy, you are centring on your deformity. When you indulge in hedonistic stimulation because you feel sorry for yourself, you are centring your being around your deformity. And if you just Eat the Pain and Walk Normally, you’ll be fine in a couple of days, and not spin out of control in an escalating series of never-ending catching up trying to counter balance your deformity.