1. No one cares about your size.
No one thinks your shoe size is an indication of your attractiveness or worthiness or moral status. Your shoe size is just the size of shoe that fits most comfortably on your feet. Sometimes I think “I wish my feet were smaller,” but only because I want to wear my roommates’ shoes or I’ve recently stepped on something. Sometimes I’ll meet someone with hilariously tiny/huge feet and we’ll all giggle about it, but I don’t like, dwell on this fact at length, because it’s silly and arbitrary. I never feel like if only my feet were smaller, my life would be more worth living. That would be silly.
2. You have so many options!
The people who make shoes know that people don’t all want the same thing, and they accept this fact as value-neutral. They just make a whole bunch of different kinds of shoes and present them to you as choices. Even when there’s an ‘it’ shoe of the moment, you usually have a ton of choices within that style (e.g. remember when Uggs were a thing? I remember seriously debating whether I wanted the tall caramel ones or the short sand ones, and it was such a big decision for me at the time).
3. You’re allowed to be inconsistent.
You don’t have to be wearing the same pair of shoes every single day. That would actually be super weird, because different situations call for different shoes. You probably wouldn’t wear the same shoes to dinner that you would wear rock climbing. You’d wear another pair of shoes to the beach, probably. That’s not bad! It’s good!
4. You should do whatever you feel most comfortable with.
This is similar to point 1 — no one pressures you into squeezing into a smaller size. But also, in shoe shopping, comfort is one of the most important factors. This should be the case in life! We should all be searching for the most comfortable stilettos/life choices. Not that we should all do unambitious things, because that’s like wearing birkenstocks all the time, but we shouldn’t put ourselves in uncomfortable situations for no reason.
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