You Better Start Lovin' ChiChi!: i love my hands

What's the big deal about which finger you place your ring? Yes, EVERYBODY knows which one is the ring finger and it wasn't my previous flight that introduced me to another name; Suffer-Ring - I've known that for a long time ago as there was a joke on it. Well people, how bad can this little circle jewelry affect you?

Reason why I brought this topic up is because on most of my flights, my colleagues got bored talking bout work and Europe crisis, so they decided to move to the personal questions. Which I am fairly open about it. I've been wearing my 1+ year old ring on my right ring finger since I bought it despite my 'relationship status' as I find that the ring can bring out the femininity of my coarse hand and it seemed elegant to me. Not many would have the same assumption. So their first assumption is, "Did your boyfriend buy you that ring?"

Hell no. It is my 24th birthday gift for myself last year.

Oh. Surely your boyfriend got you something BIGGER.

What boyfriend?

*silent 30 second*

Well you've got a ring there, so I presume that you must have a boyfriend.

Honestly, I never really knew that rings are such a BIG deal cos I thought it was just a sign of a man's affection towards his woman(no matter which finger she puts on) and that was from Disney's Robin Hood cartoon(shut up, I watched A LOT of cartoons when I was young) - where Robin gave his sweetheart, Maiden Marian, a flower ring. All right, I don't know why but MOST cartoon characters only have 4 fingers so the flower ring is worn on her middle finger.

But to me, that's that. It is a Western thing, when I realized that my parents, my relatives who are in their late 40s or beyond, have never worn any ring. Does that mean that their affections for each other die off as years pass? Beats me. One thing I know for sure, divorce lawyers are probably earning much more than they had 30 years back.

I've met and knew some people who wore their rings on their fourth finger on their left/right hands and lets just say, I don't wanna judge, I'm not saying its their prerogative, I won't deny that the vows that they made in front of God on their wedding days COULD probably be real, I don't wanna know if someday they'll get a payback for what they did. Cos one thing I know about faithfulness, to gain it, you gotta risk yourself by giving your all.

Never let an object to be your sole aim of having happiness. It can never promise you anything other than earning extra cash unless you pawn it. I do have to admit one thing, it does hinder the chances of adultery but first, it is removable and pocket sized. Second, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

By the way, I will never change the placement of my ring due to people's assumption. Plus, I'm getting the hang of it, people asking me about my imaginary boyfriend - yes, it is Daniel, my faithful Daniel always lying on my bed, awaiting for my arrival to cuddle with it till the sun rises(or sets).

Its my human bolster, idiots.

PS: The same thing about respect as my Mom taught me, to gain respect is to respect first. If none is given, walk away.
But spit on them first(OK, I made this up)

PPS: Regardless of what I've posted, I don't mean that I don't need any of those blings.

My ring timeline (18JUL2010 - forever);
10 days ahead of my b'day