When I saw my good friend buying this pair of shoes in Japan, I always felt a little unreal and unrealistic. More than 10,000 RMB, a pair of old shoes 1985 ... It's hard to equate this price with a pair of goods with no use value in money, but as a person who likes shoes for a long time, I understand very well.
Sometimes trying to get in touch with friends' stories about shoes can always make you feel happy and deeply moved.
My friend is not good at basketball, but he is almost obsessed with AJ, a basketball star in his first year. It can even be said that some items of AJ have become his "spiritual sustenance". It also made me curious about my obsession as a friend.
Friends are people who have studied in Japan. He left the best lush years of his life on Jing Ya Island, which is filled with the fragrance of cherry blossoms. Under the pressure of heavy schoolwork, he fell in love with Japanese sports shoes culture. Japan's relatively high-quality shoe fans' requirements for star players, shoe styles and more three-dimensional fullness make him obsessed with the years of studying abroad accompanied by sneakers. Japanese love shoes, trade carefully and wait for search ... Their sneaker culture is as soft and delicate as their animation culture. And when you find the story behind every tiny detail, that kind of infinite proximity to the truth will really make you want to stop.
During my years in Japan, my friend was immersed in his happiness about sneakers. Back in China, facing the budding young mainland sneaker culture, he was even more uncomfortable, puzzled and even depressed, which made him miss his time in Japan more and more. Since 2008, I have co-organized a small shoe exhibition with a few friends. Friends protect themselves with silence, keep a low profile, and try their best to protect the pure land and carefree island memories in life under the increasingly cruel pressure of survival, without asking more people to understand, but only for a short silence in the noise of the current environment. Although the life about sneakers is illusory and unrealistic, it is so real and vivid for everyone's different experiences. ...
I deeply remember the sparkle in my friend's eyes when he was holding shoes. Behind that glory is the past that he will never betray, or the Japanese street shoe store many years ago. At that time, he often lingered in front of these shoes ... bittersweet, only he knew the truth. We can smell his happiness in the air.
We are alive, the roads we have traveled, the shoes we have worn, and many, many ... happy and grateful.
Shoes, sports shoes, basketball shoes, AJ…… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… In fact, shoes do not have the property of "collecting art in a narrow sense". The reason why the price is high or low is because many shoes will become the materialized memory of different people.
The standard to measure the price of shoes is everyone's quiet years, which is true and priceless. ...