I was thinking the other day about my shoes. I put a lot of trust in my shoes, even when I kind of shouldn't — I sometimes spin or slide or stop suddenly and I realised the other day it could easily slip too much at times I don't expect and I would just be screwed. Like on the stairs.
It's not just my shoes of course — there's all sorts of things like that that I rely on all the time and if I think about it could fail at any moment: my phone, my laptop, my pen, my keyboard. I'm glad that all these things that could fail me at any moment consistently in fact don't betray me. I get braver and braver — sometimes I purposely try and see how far I can spin with my shoes or how quickly I can stop while walking — and it makes me feel more confident in my own ability to manipulate the world around me. I feel more like a person when I do that.