Walking Barefoot on Broken Glass
By Dr. Barefoot Sidy Diallo
Overcoming Nelophobia
Nelophobia—the irrational fear of glass—is arguably one of the main reasons many people are so reluctant to run or walk barefoot. Well, in an ideal world no one would throw glassy objects, but some do just that, seemingly even more so since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly where the bars are closed because of the restrictions.
While I was happily running my 90th barefoot marathon in the real world, and my face expressing neither fear nor any pain, a lot of people asked me the eternal questions barefoot runners have to confront in many places around the world: “Don’t your feet hurt? Aren’t you afraid of stepping on broken glass?”...
There were fortunately a lot of pieces of broken glass on a place of the course. So I stepped on them and took a photo to illustrate what I was saying, to no avail. That’s hardly a surprise to me, as it’s one of the symptoms of the ancestral phobia of bare feet that I explain in the book, Running Barefoot for Human Survival.
My book Running Barefoot for Human Survival is available on Amazon in paperback and e-book format (French edition: Courir pieds nus pour sauver les humains).
Overcoming Nelophobia
Nelophobia—the irrational fear of glass—is arguably one of the main reasons many people are so reluctant to run or walk barefoot. Well, in an ideal world no one would throw glassy objects, but some do just that, seemingly even more so since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly where the bars are closed because of the restrictions.
While I was happily running my 90th barefoot marathon in the real world, and my face expressing neither fear nor any pain, a lot of people asked me the eternal questions barefoot runners have to confront in many places around the world: “Don’t your feet hurt? Aren’t you afraid of stepping on broken glass?”...
There were fortunately a lot of pieces of broken glass on a place of the course. So I stepped on them and took a photo to illustrate what I was saying, to no avail. That’s hardly a surprise to me, as it’s one of the symptoms of the ancestral phobia of bare feet that I explain in the book, Running Barefoot for Human Survival.
My book Running Barefoot for Human Survival is available on Amazon in paperback and e-book format (French edition: Courir pieds nus pour sauver les humains).