“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend”! No, I am not referring to the famous song where Marilyn Monroe in her extravagant pink dress dances about gracefully in the movie ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’. Here I am also hinting towards the fact that maybe, diamonds are capable of being our best mates.

It is astonishing how a rigid life-less compressed carbon structure can successfully fill certain gaps in our lives. Well I guess for 80 percent of us women, it can. The other 20 percent have obviously found something more glittery and shiny that appeals better to their eyes!

For starters I’d say ‘Diamonds are forever’. Isn’t that true anyway? People may enter your lives and take the exit sometime in the future but diamonds, you buy them and they are yours. It is something that you have acquired and will last. Of course I am not going to discuss issues of theft and jewelry snatching here but, we’ll agree on the point that at times when we feel lonely or unhappy by our loved ones, a little self pampering with the help of materialistic possessions pulls us out of that darkness. 

They make a women feel special. When the question is popped surely we all want a grand celebration. Wine, lights, good food and magnifying the intensity of the moment is that big diamond that rests beautifully on your hand. It symbolizes everlasting love and the sacred commitment that you have made to stand by your partner in happiness, sorrow, in sickness or in good health.

A friend of mine once said, “The number of cuts in my diamonds will surely determine how secure my future is”! To be noted, I am not promoting the idea that diamonds can replace love in our lives. I am merely acknowledging the fact that a perfect gentlemen would definitely buy presents to thank the important people in his lives. What would be better than those sparkling gems that would make your wife, the mother that raised you or your girlfriends eyes glow greater than the diamond itself!

All this has really got me thinking and I am going to stop listing reasons and rush down to my nearest jewelry showroom and reward myself haha!

Life is busy, responsibilities are never ending, problems are faced daily, diamonds are expensive but, it never hurts to occasionally spend a little just to remind ourselves that we are special and need to be taken care of too.

-        Shivangi Raj