My friend says wearing shoes without socks is disgusting.
I'm beginning to see what he means.

Socks keep your feet clean and from breaking a sweat
and help in homeostasis. Kept in socks, feet don't get
dry and hard, or develop painful cracks, or stink. The socks absorb it all.
How this happens is both perfectly explicable by materials and conditions and processes,
and yet the happiness of feet is not. Perhaps we all need
something between ourselves and the surfaces we present to the dust:
Soulmates.