Comments on: Golden Memories

By: Amir

Amir — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:14:31 +0000

It is true in a way, some objects and places are a great reference to your memories … they make ‘remembering’ a convenience.

By: Pseudo-Desi

Pseudo-Desi — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:57:57 +0000

After reading this, i just remembered my first blue-beaded ring i got when i was just a small kid…we may lose the stuff we own within years but the memories are always within us waiting to be taken out with even a slightest attemtp…

By: Liana

Liana — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:27:39 +0000

I still remember my first paycheck!!!!! 1992! After having taught the first wonderful 12 hours of my teaching career… Maybe as Tahera very accurately points it out, we “amass” golden memories nowadays, achievements more than jewelry. And that does not mean we do not care about looking beautiful…

By: Liana

Liana — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:53:17 +0000

On golden memories…

I am a no-gold-woman. Better yet: a no-golden gold woman. Have not bought, owned or worn anything gold in years. Why? I prefer silver, the liquidity of it. Or white gold, how silently irreverent it is.

By: Tahera

Tahera — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:27:11 +0000

That’s an interesting piece, Amir. Here’s another take on this issue…from another woman!

I think every woman needs an identity. If she can only define herself with reference to her family (as happened in our grandmothers’ era), she then strives to find her own identity through her second instinct – to look beautiful – and anything she can use in that respect gains importance in her life.

When a woman is encouraged to nurture her intellectual capacity, her focus shifts to higher concerns and she is least bothered about amassing gold! (which does NOT mean she doesn’t want to look good anymore!)I believe, there are equally wonderous memories associated with writing the first poem or getting paid for the first published piece…or anything else she can feel proud to lay claim to as solely her own creation.