After 50, My Feet Grew to 26 cm

Today’s story きょうの あらすじ

I'm tall, so my feet are on the larger side too. In my twenties, women's shoes were only sold up to about 24.5 cm, and I wore pumps in that size. After I turned 50, COVID came along, and my everyday shoes changed to sneakers. Around that time I started machine Pilates, and I found out that the shape of my feet was throwing off my balance when standing. I'm being taught how to walk so that I push off the ground with all five toes. Then my feet got bigger and bigger, and now they're 25.5 to 26 cm. Even I'm surprised by it. I think that back then, I must have been making my feet fit into small shoes. "What a cruel thing I've been doing to my feet," I think, and I regret it now, late as it is. From now on, I want to choose shoes that fit my feet and that I can walk in comfortably.

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Vocabulary ことば

今日のことば、
きいて、まねる。

A new one, tomorrow morning.