The toes out of the closet

Most people have secrets.
Things of themselves they fear to share with others.
Because they imagine it results in embarrassment.
Meaning that they fear that sharing the secret will make other people have a negative opinion about them.
Disturbing their social functioning.

However, living with secrets is not very good either.
And in many cases, it is mentally more healthy to stop the secret by revealing it compared to keeping the secret inside.

A person who can go through life knowing to have no secrets is more open, honest and enjoying.
Having a much better time.

Another aspect of having a secret is that it is big and important as long as it is kept private.
It can be then a major personal issue of dramatic proportions.
While the moment it is revealed, shared with others, it turns out the secret is not that important at all.
What was big in the personal imagination, becomes a little nothing once entering the communal conscience.
And can be left behind.

The fear that revealing the secret will have serious and negative social repercussions is most of the time not justified.
The imagination and expectation how people will respond to the issue that is a secret is usually completely wrong.
Most of the time people will understand, accept and tolerate.

Embarrassment is a phantom.
It is caring too much how other people might respond.

All this wisdom about revealing secrets is a preparation and a weapon to reveal here and now a secret that is bothering for several years now.
Yes, fervent and loyal blog readers, a secret is going to be revealed as embarrassment is left behind and trust is put in the audience.

The secret:

It concerns the feet.


More particularly, the toes.



In fact, it is about the nails.



Truth is, the nails of the largest toes.



Don't get it wrong: for most of the life the nails of the largest toes have been alright.
They have been there faithfully although of course needing cutting once a month.
Until when in Brazil in 2002, it was noticed that the nails started to deform.
Showing in a weird way.
Becoming the most ugly ones around.
Nobody can see them without feeling instantly disgusted.



Hence, the feet are kept out of sight.
Under the table.
Covered by socks.
Becoming an issue.
A secret.

The first diagnosis was that it was all because of lack of calcium.
Why then only the nails of the largest toes were deforming remained a mystery.
Anyway, calcium tablets were swallowed daily for a while.
But the nails of the largest toes were not impressed: no change for the better.

Then an expert said: those are marathon nails.
It seems that people who do daily running, develop these weird nails.
It was predicted that all the other nails would start deforming as well.
But this didn't happen.
In any case, stopping the daily running was out of the question.

Then a few months ago, a good friend claimed it was fungus.
Some organisms living underneath the nail deforming it.
Great !
Lodgers !
Every pharmacy has anti-fungus treatment for sale.
A small bottle with a liquid that needs to be applied on the toes twice a day for about 6 weeks.
Killing the uninvited organisms.
For two months the discipline was performed of applying the anti-fungus liquid on the toes twice daily.
Until this effort resulted in feeling a fool because the deformation happily continued.

So now there is nothing left to do but have the toes come out of the closet.
To shout to the world:

"The nails are deformed".

OK, that's done.
The secret is gone.
The feet are free again.

And maybe someone reading this shocking and revealing story has seen nails like this before and knows the remedy.


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