Each year on my birthday, I buy myself a single piece of jewelry that I put a put a promise, a wish or a memory into. Last year I bought myself a beautiful diamond ring that was a circle of diamonds and flowers. That wish and promise was all about reminding myself to be true to who I am and to live for myself and my dreams. But, as I have found, sometimes being true to yourself is painful and a large growth process. You have to understand that you are growing and changing and learning to say no to people and compassionately call out bad behavior without snapping or negating the other person…
Whew, not an easy job and sometimes you get caught up in the intensity of the growth and change that you forget the whole reason you do it in the first place. That reason is to find joy and happiness and to stop living for someone else. So, this year’s birthday gift was all about a reminder to be filled with joy at just the beauty of life, to stop living in the future or the past but instead live in the brilliant moment as it presents itself.
But, what should I buy? I wanted a tear drop star sapphire necklace, but I couldn’t find one that I liked. Diamond earrings, but they weren’t doing it for me. I am in LOVE with Cartier’s LOVE bracelets but 3k isn’t what my budget is this year (gulp, for gold only?!?!) and I think I would like someone to buy me a LOVE bracelet, not myself. So, yesterday I went and visited Tiffany’s. After an hour of looking and trying and looking some more, I saw a thin silver mesh bracelet sitting all by itself in the case. I normally don’t like Tiffany’s mesh since it is very think and bulky. But, it appears this is from their brand new line and they only got one of it and it hadn’t even been released on their website. Needless to say, I fell in love! It just needed something small to set it off and make it unique. After looking and thinking and searching, I decided on a Tiffany lock to use to lock the bracelet onto my wrist.
I am still in the middle of infusing the bracelet with my wish and promise, but so far it is doing a good job of centering me and reminding me of living in the moment and joy.
