At first look love and shoe repair may seem like an odd match. But on closer inspection, they share many of the same elements. Also like love, in shoe repair, you are looking for trust, care, patience, and the willingness to repair what’s broken instead of discarding it.

Let us see how love plays out in the journey of reviving your favorite pair of shoes.

1. Not All Garments Are Worth Discarding.

In all aspects of love and footwear time plays its role. Soles wear out, leather marks do appear, and stitching comes apart. But that does not mean the pair is out of value. Like a deep relationship, your favorite shoes have formed your lifestyle. They have gone through the seasons with you, through good times and bad.

Shoe repair shows that instead of discarding the things which are important to us when they break we can choose to fix them. With a little care, some skill, and a sense of value in what we already have this is a lesson true for shoes and for love.