Slippers that perfectly fit!

Wearing a Christian Louboutin or a Sergio Rossi heels would make one really elegant and oozing with glamour. But these can never substitute the comfort that a 50-peso rubber slippers could give. Everybody, even former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, famous for her more than 3,000 pairs of shoes, has at least a pair of slippers, because at the end of the day, at the end of a long trip, we always look for comfort, for relaxation.

Just as our feet long for slippers after an exhausting day, we too look for “slippers “ in our lives – people who makes us “feel at home”, who allow us to be ourselves, minus the so called norms and social graces. We do meet a lot of people from various stature and race, but not all of them would make us comfortable, in fact, some would even try to create a “different us”. Restrictions are imposed – how to eat, how to dress, how to talk, how to move – things which are not the “true us”. We go through this stressful masquerades almost everyday of our lives, thus, there is always this desire in our hearts to go home and just be ourselves. We have a number of friends and acquaintances but only a handful could bring out our true selves. We always wish to go back to friends in whose company we can strip off the masks, in those company with whom we can laugh our hearts out, speak at the top of our voices and move as if we are a child again. This holds true with relationships. We aspire for partners who would accept and love us just as we are, and not how they would want us to be. Many relationships fail because either partners has the hidden agenda of changing the other half according to his standards. The essence of love – which is accepting the person for what he is and not for what the partner wants him to be, is totally shunned.
In this lifetime, we continuously search for this partner and until we have found him, dumping partners become as easy as changing clothes. But as soon as that “perfect person”, comes our way, the search would finally end. When we have finally found our “slippers”, we would just want to be with him for the rest of our lives.
We wander to different places for a hundred and one reason – for work, study or business – but our hearts will always lead us home after each travel.
When this person would come, or whether he would come, varies from one person to another. Some are lucky enough to find the perfect much at a very young age, others during their twilight years yet the time actually is of little significance – what is more important is that we find this person in this lifetime, otherwise, we have to wait for him in another lifetime, if there really is such a thing.
I am blessed that I am one of those who have found our “slippers” in this lifetime – not really the expensive type, but I know he is who the Lord has chosen for me, he is the one most suitable slipper that perfectly fits me!