If I find you boring, it's not your fault. You are not a boring person, I am a restless person.

An old shoe is like an old friend. Look at a shoe you have had for a long time, maybe a year or two, but more is best. How many memories do you have of wearing it? How much of your life have you shared with it, and how much of its life has it shared with you? Remember all the compliments you received on it when it was brand shiny new and still had that not-yet-worn smell? How proud you were! Why yes, these are new shoes, how kind of you to notice. And now it's scuffed and broken. It's not the shoe's fault, nor is it yours. This has happened simply because the shoe has worked so hard for you, and is becoming tired in its old age. But you've had some times together, haven't you? How many times did you dance-happy with that shoe on your foot? How many times did you wear it to go see someone special? And how many times did you stamp your foot in anger, sadness, frustration, only to be stamping the shoe? I suppose you realise, that means the shoe has felt all those emotions through you. After looking at the shoe like this, will you ever be able to throw it away, or will you love it too much?