Ever since the Romans invented the first pair of shoes, human feet were sent on an evolutionary downturn. Rather than being equipped to deal with all the bumps and bruises from exposure to tough ground, our feet became supple, soft, and ill-suited to any kind of discomfort.
Gone are the days of hardened callouses protecting us from feeling even the slightest scratch from underfoot, humans now have to endure gruesome liquid-filled blisters appearing with no rhyme or reason and not depending on what shoes we’re wearing or the weather conditions may be outside.
