Buying Jewels Is Like Learning To Dance

I have two friends and each one is a manager of a local jewelry store. The majority of their clients/customers are in the happy mode when entering the store. Sometimes, they are not happy about the price of the article they want to purchase. However, after making the purchase, a transformation usually occurs. If the bride to be is there, she is elated about her coming new ring, if a man is purchasing it for Christmas/Chanukah, birthday or mother’s day, he is feeling quite overcome with not only the payment charged to his credit card; he is surely proud he could make it, buy it and soon to give it. Dancing is like buying a new jewel. You will sparkle, you will anticipate, you will be happy, you will be content and most of all you will be entering a new world, new to you and it is very exciting. On dancing shows, the participants stand before the judges and get praised, sometimes, they get chastised often and a lot of the time they are put down. In real life, when one chooses to go to a competition to compete with his professional partner, they come out, they dance and then they sit down and wait for the next event called a heat. They do not stand before judges who no longer dance themselves and hear criticism of how they are doing and sometimes big putdowns as the judges did to Chaz Bono with one commenting on his rotund body by saying he looked like a penguin. Penguins do not dance, do not try to learn to dance and do not stay to hear an old timer judge call him that. In a competition,at that moment in that dance, no hysterical crying or tears appear. If you are happy you won, you smile victoriously, if you lose, you still smile, you are a good sport who had the courage to be in an event called a competition. Either way, win or lose, you still are a winner, because you had the spirit to dance, to compete and to be there. This is the way dance competitions are run and you are successful. So become a dancer, regardless of your age, remember that lace is not only a piece of material to cover a piece of furniture or to be worn as a blouse, it is this: Loving it (L) Activity (A) Constant (C) Excellent (E) Remember you are buying a jewel when you dance. A jewel that you will ‘wear’ for a long time. elita sohmer clayman