Just how much do we understand about putting ourselves in someone else's shoes? The phrase itself becomes cliché after a while. It takes just one person to poke fun at us at a wrong time, and we can hear it coming from our brain to the mouth. Everyone can talk the talk, but how many can actually do the walking?

Being yanked off your own pair of shoes and put into an undesirable situation ain't walking the walk, it's simply learning the hard way. It takes initiative to really understand how someone else feels, and even so, it won't make you feel like him/her. Simply because we're ourselves, not anyone else. We can only try to understand, empathize, and then help by doing something or sometimes, nothing.

Always put yourself in someone else's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too. Everybody's threshold of pain is different, so if you're afraid of pain, the least you can do, is to just imagine yourself in that torn and tattered pair of shoes.

Not everyone can afford Crocs, be glad you are in a pair. But if Bata is all you can have, it's better than nothing.