The Opal Bracelet Saved Me

I was thinking back on things that people do with chutzpah (gall). The definition of the word is that a boy says he is an orphan and pleads this before the court after he has slain his parents. So I encountered chutzpah about twenty years ago when the cardiologist sent me at about 6 pm one wintery, dark evening to go across the way from his medical office to get a blood test in the hospital there. He said they were open until seven and he would have the results immediately.

So I went and had to go down in the basement for the blood lab.When I got there, two women were sitting at the desk eating, chatting and ignoring me. Finally, I said that the doctor wanted me to get this blood test immediately. The older woman looked at me like I was asking for her to fly me in an airplane at once. She finally looked up at me as if I was disturbing her dinner. She said "if you want me to take your blood during my supper time, give me that pretty opal bracelet you are wearing." I thought it a joke and smiled. She said "well?" I quickly realized I was by myself in a basement. No one at home knew where I was and there were no cell phones to use then.

I gathered my nervous wits and responded. I said "My mom gave this to me, she is gone now. I cannot part with it.However, you can go to a store in the mall called Impostors and they have the same bracelet as this. This is not expensive jewelry, it is what they call imitation and the store there sells them for about twenty dollars. Everyone will think as you did, that it is real. No way, they are impostors." "Well, she said, that is great; I shall go there tonight when I get done your blood work."

She took my blood, I scampered as fast as my fifty year old feet and legs could run and ran to my car. It was good this was not a heart test, I would have failed it and they would have put me in the hospital.

My bracelet was real, my story was not. It saved me.I knew of this Impostor store because my friend visited with me and I saw her wearing a gorgeous diamond solitaire on her left finger. I said congratulations, when is the wedding? She laughed at that time and said it was fake and she bought it for herself.Now Celeste was use to wearing real diamonds. This one was not. That is how I knew of the store called Impostors.They had gorgeous jewelry made to look real and authentic. They were a busy store with many well to do people buying copies and imitation jewels. Actually, they looked almost like the real ones.

So sometimes in life, imitation can be better in some circumstances than genuine and bona fide objects. I usually do not lie, only now and then about my weight, I never lie about my age. I lied that evening to save myself and my jewelry piece. My husband bought it for me and it keeps me safe when I am out and about. If I do not wear it, something bad will happen to me.

Dr. Wayne Dyer said " beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul." It can be said that beautiful jewelry, genuine or fake, can keep you alive and healthy. When we had our auto accident, my opal bracelet saved our lives.

Sometimes you need to use your wits, your good chutzpah to be bold in accomplishing something worthwhile to help yourself out. You will know when to do so. Also your good luck piece, it does not need to be an opal bracelet, anything that is good luck for you will do.