Cruelty-Free , Nature Friendly and Fashionable Lifestyle

As you people already know that I love sneakers, only ones made without any leather. I hate anything made out by killing an innocent animal. I eat only vegetarian food. Then I came across adbusters somehow while looking for sneakers and across their blackspots and I have to say myself, there are people out there in this world who think like me . Do I like NIKE shoes, yes, I love them, their designs, their so much research into comfort and technical use of one pair of shoes. They have a style, they have the durability and looks. They have all the things I need in a shoe ?

I guess no. What if I can get the same, well … may be better, style, a better look, same comfort in my shoes without those 10 billions $s and without those those 100 millions liters of harmful chemicals going into sea, killing the environment. What if I can get a fashionable shoe or very decent shoe or a sports shoe which is comfortable and designed for running or another model designed for hiking and what if all of them are cruelty-free, eco-conscious and environment friendly ? What if I don’t ? . I think I will give it a shot. Its so stupid of human behavior that adjusts itself very easily to a corrupt and selfish environment and greedy goals of a corporation. If we can get the same or better things in life with an added value to the nature, to the environment why not use it. My friends in college used to hang the carry bags of different brands (Adidas, NIKE, United Colors of Benetton, Reebok, Levi’s, Lee) they get along with clothing, shoes or accessories in their rooms for months, just to show off that they are some sort of superior men because they use those brands. Were they wrong .. no… because there were hundreds of other fools who get impressed by looking at their branded material. You can’t do anything about it, selfishness and thinking others are inferior are the basic two properties the way the human species live. There are many places where you can find the attractive vegetarian shoes. Look ate UK based company noharm and their shoes. The corporate approach has always been to make the money. Money making is not a bad thing and when someone makes money at the cost of environment, at the cost of lives I am not going to hang-out with him. Look at these nice things made by bboheme or Mooshoes, vegetarian shoes and hundreds of other places you can find by just doing a Google Search . Earth is the place where we live and if we try to imbalance it, we need to be ready for the consequences too.

But I do ask myself a question many times. Why kill animals, why dump harmful chemicals and poisonous gases into the environment when we can achieve the better things by doing the opposite. Why ? Whats the point ? That is the time I decided to use vegetarian and environment friendly shoes, wallets belts and other accessories. I don’t see any Indian Company selling such kind of things but I will keep on looking and trying. I don’t want to kill nature, may be I am stupid but I am not stupid enough to destroy the place which gives me life. Here are some Vegetarian shoes I found, not only for men but even some very attractive things for women are here. What do you live for ?

 

 

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Sports Shoes Mania

I am big fan of Sneakers, known as Sports Shoes in middle-class families of India. I know that casual shoes look much better most of the time with jeans and other casual stuff but you can’t beat the comfort and mobility of a pair of sports shoes. The day I came across Sneaker-Freaker and saw how many different kinds of sports shoes were there, for different kind of activities, for different kind of foot, with different kind of features and functions, sneakers designed specifically for people with overpronate feet, underpronate (supinate), neutral feet, high arch, low arch .. oh my god… . Different kinds of sports shoes for basketball, different pair for football, different pairs designed specifically for running, others for walking, more for cross-training and so much. You can’t find such kind of features that help you and your feet and your legs in anything other than sports shoes. I was blown away and fell in love with sports shoes much more than ever before. Go ahead and give NIKE’s Shoe Finder a try, you will never regret it.

I actually loved Chucks and High-Tops a lot but because of the way I used them I felt much pain in wearing those, hence I have to drop the idea of using or even buying them at all, no matter how much I loved them. The point lies in technical use and then in what you feel or how do they look. So right now what you will see are either trainers or running shoes and nothing else. Here is a list of other shoes that I like, call it a Sports Shoe Mania

 

 

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Jeans

I always write serious things. So this time I decided to write something casual , like something about Jeans. Yes, you read right, I am looking for a new pair of Jeans, I am checking into all those Lee, Levi, Numero Uno and Flying Machine things. Before I do, I Googled a little and got 2 very informative and genuine articles on how to choose Jeans, one is at askmen and other excellent article I found written by Isabella Snow . Many thanks to both of them. Now since I am going to buy Jeans I have to buy casual shoes too. First I was thinking of buying high-top shoes as my first and foremost requirement is whether I can move and run freely by wearing them or if I can fight with a bunch of guys with full speed, if it ever happens. Woodland’s completely casual shoes are, first, made of leather which I don’t like as a material, who wants to kill animals for shoes, I don’t. 2nd, they are too heavy, I tried some of theirs, they look very good and comfortable but their weight and shape restricts the movement of my legs and feet. So I thought sports shoes are a way to go, I even fond a large collection which I can’t buy since I am in India, hence 50% of the models are not available and 2nd they are very expansive (you know NIKE, Reebok and adidas, all of them). Then I came across a very impressive work of footwear. Unfortunately, these blackspot shoes are also not available in India. Quite of a bad-luck. Of all the stores and showrooms I have visited, I found boots or casual shoes look much better than the sneakers but the ones I liked were made of leather and I don’t like killing innocent animals for the fashion. I will better use some sports-shoes rather than leather. I found these good Shoe FAQs. Hope you will find them useful.

I will definitely wear Jeans with non-leather shoes. I will be shopping for coming weeks, lets see what I will find. If you have some advice, please put it here. And here are some of the sneakers or sports shoes for those people who think sports shoes are not better than boots or casuals:

 

 

Though these shoes are very attractive and durable, the Multi-National Corporations that manufacture these do not care about either nature or the humans. They put millions of liters of harmful chemicals into the rivers, underpay workers, take advantage of places where human rights are last thing for all powerful men in administration. Thats why I like the Earth-friendly, Cruelty-free shoes you will see next. Preserving the nature can look quite beautiful and smart. Just have a look at them yourself:

 

 

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I am a corporate man, I am an educated and civilized man

I have spent last 7 years of my life in corporate culture, different companies I have worked with and I have these observations on so called educated people or civilized society (fake words for corporate employees with an ignorant lifestyle).

• At the age of 40 or 45, a CEO or a even a simple corporate employee gets a permanent disease like diabetes, heart-problems, kidney problems and blood-pressure. Then this disease will remains with him till he dies. This happens due to 30 years of stupid way of living, life of zero exercise. It means, man is just another species and like other species he has to use his body like an animal. Since corporate people go opposite of this natural construction, they are bound to have the result of their wrongdoing to the natural piece of matter (the body).

• In year 2005, I was working as an insurance salesman and my company handed me a data of 400 local doctors, to whom I have to sell the insurance. I took this opportunity to learn something. I got 80 appointments and out of those 80 doctors, 20 were diabetic. It kind of disturbed me: A Doctor has Diabetes ?. They take tea without sugar and in 10 cases, I got the wrong cup of tea . Every single doctor told me that Diabetes and Blood-Pressure are not diseases but lifestyles (except if some child got it from his parents, genetically).

• I, myself, was constantly falling ill and used to visit doctor 3-4 times a month, spending 2-3K of rupees every month on medication. My muscles were dead. The day I started exercises videos of TanDao.com, that illness vanished, I am practicing since April the 3rd of this year, and since then I have not seen any doctor a single time.

So this is the experience of mine, humans are just like animals, we have physically use the body, to keep the diseases away. This is the way of the nature, From my side, That is the only answer to “Why”.

Though my father used to do a lot of Yog, I never liked it. As a kid, whenever he asked me to do Padmasan, I pointed my finger at Bruce Lee’s poster and said: “I want to be a Kung-Fu Master”. Yog is very rooted in our culture, Hath Yog (a kind of difficult type of Yog) seems to protect a practitioner from some very serious diseases like Diabetes, Blood Pressure, Nerve Problems and even some types of cancer. Because of some weird timings of his job my father stopped doing Yog a decade ago. Now he has gotten both Diabetes and Blood-Pressure problems and I am sure he will soon get cholesterol problems. He started job at the age of 23 or 25 and today he is 59, 37 years of anti-nature lifestyle has killed his body. My colleagues and millions of corporate people doing the same today. I don’t want to do the mistakes they do everyday, I don’t want to repeat the mistakes my father has done. I knows it takes pain to change habits, I know its takes pain to take time out of your busy lives but that pain is much worth than having a fatal diseases, than to know that you have lived a stupid life by being ignorant of your own nature.

• I don’t take tea because everyone around me takes tea in the morning and evening. My colleagues feel less active and boring without a cup of team on their desk.

• I don’t read newspapers because almost everyone takes a sip of tea form the cup and then reads the newspaper in the morning.

• I don’t drink and smoke. Educated people drink and then talk and behave like fools after they drink. This is not the way of the nature.

• I don’t eat non-veg. I have found a vegetarian lifestyle to be natural

• For your information,I have tried all of these: drinking, smoking and non-veg. I used to do them once.

• These are the habits that most of population posses and they feel unable to change them, leaving their lives on the mercy of general natural weaknesses, when a man is capable of achieving nearly every impossibility in this universe .

Its the way of the Martial-Arts that taught me that the greatest fight is not with an opponent but within oneself, winning over your own weaknesses and inabilities. Martial-Arts is the way of the nature, its the path I have chosen to follow and no amount pain can stop me from being a Martial-Artist.

 

 

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