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Day 30 of 100

Black-and-white overhead view of two bare feet on dark background, each with a framed portrait tattoo: a bearded man and a zombie face.
Day 30 / 100 Weight 353.2 (+1.5 lbs) Worn out Sony A7R5 50mm f/4 1/100 ISO100

Feet are gross.

I’ve tried to like feet, especially my own for a long time, but yuck. I took this photo to talk about the tattoos on my feet, but I am almost more embarrassed to post a photo of my feet than the shirtless one I did.

And talk about the difference between men and women. My feet have never been sexualized. I checked WikiFeet. They aren’t there.

So feet are gross. Sorry for the photo.

The tattoos are dope. Well one is. The other one is the worst tattoo I have. Zombie Micah and Regular Micah in a mirror. The idea is that when I look down, I can have Zombie Micah (bad) or Regular Micah (good) reflected back at me.

When I was going through getting my life together the first time it felt like I had done a lot of evil stuff, but came out unscathed. Like the Portrait of Dorian Gray, I could do ugly things, but only my tattoo, Zombie Micah, got ugly.

For years when I would look down I would see Zombie Micah and think about the life I led. How I was not a positive influence on people. How I enabled a lot of bad behavior. And that was what reflected back at me.

But since the middle of 2020, I see Regular Micah much more often when I look down. I realize that I have evened out the scales and have become a force for good. I add more value to the world than I take out of it. And that makes me happy.

I do wish Regular Micah was a bit skinnier, but that’s a whole ‘other disease for another day.