Jewelry

Gold, Silver, Diamonds - Whatever makes you happy 12/13/2004 12:32 PM
If you look at the history of currency, people invented the concept of rare stones, and precious metals to facilitate trade. Society then created the concept of jewelry and conditioned minds to think that it makes one look more beautiful. Yet another success stories for the marketing departments.

Philosophically what is jewellery? Dead weight that you lug around. The story of the King and his invisible clothes repeated. The parody is that people refuse to see it.

Financially, families needed to have some liquid assets and needed to keep them safe. So they converted a part of their fortunes into jewellery and hung them on the women kind. During economic downturns, women, noble as they are rise up to the occasion and liquidate these. During economic upturns, it was safe to do so, because women guarded their gold with their lives. How many of you have heard stories about women gambling with their jewellery or selling them to buy drinks. It is always the men who succumb to their vices. The real cool bonus that men reap is by creating a moral obligation on their ladies and extracting all sorts of favors.

A beautiful person really does not need any ornaments. Most men will agree with me (though they might not admit it) that women look the best when naikaid.

>> For Konkanis only (Do you understand humor?) >>

Let me let you in on a little secret. Paulay is the cheapest red “Bling Bling”

Hindus had already masterminded the scheme to stick a red dot on the forehead of all the married women to warn others that “This one is taken”. Unfortunately Konks constituted of lots of bluddy perverts who directly talked to the rack rather than greet the eye. So the wise old men of the community got together and decided to put on another sign post hanging on the married women as an additional security measure. Now to implement it, they pulled a magnificent con job convincing the women that “This is bamba”, “You look beautiful”, “If water flows from it on your body, it is good”. Till then corals were just some useless red things that were stacked with shells and sand. I really admire those guys who ever coined the words “precious stones” and created the market for Jewelery, wonderful con job to. Diamonds at least shine, these things don’t even do that. But never will a Konk woman ever accept that she had been conned.