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She had told me a thousand times of how a piece of gold can hold such meaning to someone. She used to tell me ‘Just look at how it shines, it’s like it’s screaming at you, to hold it and to listen to its story’. I was too young to understand what she meant, but now as I carry those two pieces of gold in my hands every single day, those stories have a thudding impact in my life. ‘I give these to you because you’re the smartest person I know and I’m sure you’re going to enjoy them as much as I did. Just keep giving them life’. Life? How on Earth could I give life to a piece of jewelry? I didn’t understand, until one day, I saw them gleaming, looking at me like they existed for the sole purpose of being in my hands. I put them on, and as ridiculous as it sounds, I could just feel history being made. I could feel her lovers holding her hand, and a thousand glasses of white wine, and thirty thousand cigarettes, and old books, and tear stained cheeks, and my grandma’s heartbeat, and my dad’s scratched knee, and rejection, and pain, and laughter, and love, and life. Rings are circles, they have no beginning and no end, just like the endless sea of feelings I could feel coming at me in waves. I’ve worn those two rings every day for as long as I can remember and every time I put them on, I can feel it, I feel life, not only my aunt’s, but now, I can feel mine. I can feel my first shot of tequila, and my first kiss, and my favorite writing pen, and my best friend’s hand, from when he was too afraid to hold anybody else’s hand, because he knew I would understand, and I felt what he felt. Now his feelings, and my feelings, and my aunt’s, and my mom’s and the entire goddamned universe’s lay in my fingers, and only I can choose what to do with them. My aunt used to tell me about the power of jewelry and the impact it could have on other people. I truly didn’t understand how it could have an impact deeper than someone admiring its gleam or its price or whatever people lay their eyes upon these days, but now, as those gold circles belong to me, I can feel how my life is being engraved on them. She told me ‘Enjoy it as much as I did’. Oh dear, I am.