Feet

So I decided that my floppy bendy feet are a genetic thing.

Reading "Wild Swans" by Jung Chang and the description of how feet used to be bound, I realised that my own feet, though probably still would be in gigantic pain, would not be in as much pain as other people's feet.

Jung Chang describes how when her grandmother was two years old her mother bound her feet with tight bandages bending all her toes under apart from her big toe and crushing the arch with a heavy rock... I have no arch! And my toes are real bendy! Although my feet are quite big. (Size 7 Docs) So my bendy flat feet could be the product of evolution after all those years of my ancestors' feet being bound so painfully... or I could just be chatting rubbish. :D

I haven't gotten very far into the book as yet, I read it when I was 13 and am re-reading it now and there are a few things which make me understand the nowadays overseas chinese culture better. Like the push from the parents to the kids for success, in old China if you weren't an official, if you weren't somebody, it was likely you would get bullied by officials or somebodies.

I don't have the book on me at the moment but I might come back with a quote. :D

P.s. The link above is to buy "Wild Swans" from my Amazon referral thingy. Just in case you were interested and wanted to buy it, I could slightly maybe earn some money from it. :)