My Korean grandmother (할머니) asked me once, "When are you going to find your other shoe and give your mother a grandchild?". Not exactly sure if this is a poetic way Koreans ask "When are you going to get married?" or if it's just my grandmother's poetic saying, but it really got me to thinking about finding that special someone to share the rest of my life with. She posed this question a little more than a decade ago and I have been trying since then to figure out, "Well, what kind of shoe am I?" Am I a slipper, a flip-flop, a stiletto, a kitten heel, a pump, a boot, a tennis shoe....what? I won't know my other match if I don't even know what I am, right? I have always had this in the back of my head, especially when I go shoe shopping. I know what I am attracted to, but is he a match? hmmm....not quite sure. Better keep walking and looking for my other shoe.
In preparing for this adventure, I was packing for my extended trip to the motherland and had a dilemma of too many shoes. My first inclination was, "Oh no! I can't leave behind any shoes!". Haha...it was then I realized I have taken to heart this whole finding my other shoe thing and in the process have developed almost an obsession for shoes. Then the realization came to me that, you know, maybe there is no one perfect shoe match for some people. At home I'm a warm slipper or even just socks. However, in this phase of my life right now, I am an athletic shoe. In being an athletic shoe, I am preparing to be an animal print stiletto. But in between the athletic and stiletto time, I am a walking shoe or pump. So Korean grandma (할머니), I don't know when I will come across my other shoe, but I am more actively searching now and will let you know as soon as I do, when I have found him. Who knows, as one friend has been telling me....he just may be hidden in plain sight.
Do you know what kind of shoe you are, and have you found your other shoe?
