So you say you like sneakers?..

So for some god forsaken reason you have decided that you like sneakers and have decided to delve deeper into the world of the sneakerhead . Because no one who loves you, and none of your so-called friends and family ( that term will later become to mean “ forget it, you will never own it”) hauled off and hit you over the head to immediately put you out of your impending misery, you do it. It is ultimately just a pair of shoes. You can only wear one pair at a time. It’s completely harmless, right?

It isn’t always a bad thing. For the majority of us the shoes are something that we love, and enjoy. There is usually something attached to it, a memory, the artistry, even the performance and feel of a particular pair, and that is primarily at the root of it.

In the beginning, there were a few things that started it for me. The first one was boredom and then you add in the beginning of a pandemic and finish it off with a little YouTube.

The story is not complicated, but it does not make it any less tragic. I was about to be furloughed from a job I really did not like, but was actually good at and I really found myself at a loss.

Not to get to far off subject here, but the pandemic really forced me to do a lot of thinking, and I wound up making a few life changing decisions during that time, but this is not one of them. It was a important minor character in my life at the time, but anyway, nowback to the main story.

I have always been a collector of things and at the time I was heavy into statues, mostly anime, and certain Marvel and DC characters. Well at that point I was reaching my capacity with those, translation, I had went way overboard and needed to slow down because it was becoming an overwhelming situation that needed to stop.

I needed to to take a break and COVID-19 and my employer, were giving me the “ break “ I so desperately needed. I’m sure it was also along this same time that I decided I needed to stop being so frumpy when it came to dressing, particularly with my shoe game, and it was maybe time to explore a little.

So while I was sitting at home, uncertain how long I would be there and waiting for unemployment to figure out what they where doing with my claim, I tried to figure out the best way to distract myself. First I began binging “Community,” and “My Hero Academia,” and to supplement the the two, I just started going on YouTube all-nighters. When you can’t sleep, and can barely function throughout the day, YouTube will always be there to fill the void, with all sorts of eerily personalized and totally off base content suggestions. As a person who really was not into shoes at the time, it really sounds so strange to say that now, it was suggesting an insane amount of sneaker content.

Another side tangent. I know understand how regular folks become radicalized by doing the seemingly harmless task of surfing the web/ YouTube. Depending on your level of suggestibility, you can literally go from having zero to negligible interest in a subject to insurrection in no time at all.

So anyway, as the time continued to drag on and I continued to run out of ways to fill my time, I eventually started to watch some of the videos and it triggered another dangerous part of me and that was the collector instinct.

If you could not decipher from bit on statues, I am a ‘go hard or go home,’ type when it comes to anything that I develop an interest in. I have a fifteen hundred plus comic book collection because I wanted to buy FOUR variant comic books, so yeah I knew this could potentially be dangerous.

But it is only a pair of shoes. A pair of freaking shoes. How many pairs could one person possibly own anyway?!

To be continued, seriously the story really hasn’t even begun.