Shoes, more shoes, no not those shoes, ah what the heck, get some more shoes!

     I am a girl, therefore I do like shoes. This is normal. However these "Shoes" we speak of include sneakers, boots, high tops, stilettos, ballet flats--you get the idea.
 
      Do they include Pointe shoes?

      Because I am sad to say, if it does, I can no longer enjoy shoes. For I hate Pointe shoes, I hate them with a passion. I am proud to say I have genuine malicious feelings blossoming for this type of shoe.

       Now as I'm almost positive you don't know much about these wonderful shoes I will explain them to you. Pointe shoes (aside from being the bane of my existence) require ribbons that have to be tied a certain way and are always too tight or too lose (at least on mine). They also need elastics to help the shoes support your feet. If you've ever been on a balance beam imagine something like that for what we have to balance on. Some people seem to think Pointe shoes are rather easy to balance because they are supposedly made of wood. This is wrong, in reality we may have layers of satin, glue and paper mixed together to balance on (this does not apply to ALL pointe shoes),but no wood.

                                                          
      Monday night I spent an hour and a half cutting these elastics and ribbons off of my Pointe shoes just to sew them back on. By the end of my Pointe class...wait for it...my elastics were falling off.

    So before my next Pointe class I'm going to spend ANOTHER hour trying to fix my shoes. At this rate I'm going to be spending all of my free time (which there is already a very noticeable lack of) fixing Pointe shoes. This is not how I want to spend my free time.

     Aside from the demonic elastics, I am also sick of falling in these shoes. But my klutziness is another blog, for another day.

   So yes I hate Pointe shoes, but aren't there types of shoes that you hate as well? There must be one type. You may hate high heels (for this I will not blame you). You could find sneakers unattractive. You might dislike the chunky heeled boots (which personally, I find quite comfortable).

    My pointe (ha, see what I did there?) however stands thus: Pointe shoes are evil. They are mean and cruel and sadly as I am a dancer, I suppose I'll just have to get over it. Won't I?