Walking barefoot on grass – The Economic Times

Walking barefoot on grass – whether in your back garden or backyard, building compound, neighbourhood park, or city maidan – offers a simple, profound pleasure that connects you immediately to nature in the middle of our otherwise concrete jungle existence. Your feet cherish the lushness of grass without any need to process.

This is a departure from the usual ground and hard surfaces under one’s feet. And yet, this ‘dry wetness’ of grass is dependable, embracing, wrapping strands around your feet like delivering a micro-foot massage as you pass barefooted.

The sense of liberation as we shed the shackles of shoes and socks is immersive, allowing our toes, our heels, and the arches of our feet to commune with Earth and the earth. The green carpet determines our pace, fostering a sense of tranquillity and connection with the sheet of life on which we walk.

Walking on grass is also a reminder of our connection to the natural world. It is not through a wildlife program on TV, or via images of flora and fauna that one remembers the bigger universe one is part of, but by a simple communion with grass. It is, indeed, touching.