Listen to Your Feet

I don't know much about my feet, but I've always had a predilection for crossing my little toes. I take a certain pride in this activity as I can do it without resorting to assistance from my hands. For example, I can generally cross them even if they happen to be in shoes at the time, and this activity can be transparent to an observer. That is, it can be performed in a clandestine manner. My toes seem to want to be arranged that way. To be more precise the little toe is raised, and the second littlest toe goes underneath it. This is the case for both feet. I can't say that one foot prefers it over the other.

I recently became aware that my feet may be telling me something. You see, bunions may run in my family. This crossing of little toes may be a reaction to a natural tendency for my toes to want to tilt to the outside as in one prone towards bunions. It seems though that the little toe does not want to bend to the outside so my other toes when they tilt to the outside hit a bit of a wall there. And what can happen then may not be good. The second largest toe may find itself lifted above the big toe. This can lead to corn formation on the second largest toe for those prone towards bunions, which isn't good.