Earrings

I was always fond of fashion accessories. I would love earrings, necklaces, bracelets, belts and anything that would look shiny. Anywhere I go and if I see a shop selling fashion accessories I would definitely visit that shop. I would buy some or the other things from that fashion accessory shop. I had a huge collection of earrings. In my college days and in my office I was known to have really great and fashionable earrings. Many girls word approach me to borrow the fashion accessories for special events. I would happily lend them the fashion accessories. There was one time when I had to give away my favourite earrings without having intention to do so.

Once a new shop had opened near my house. This shop only had fashionable earrings. I had visited that shop and I had purchased a lot of earrings from there. I had purchased some earrings for myself and some for my cousins whom I was going to visit soon. Since all of them used to like my earrings I decided that instead of giving some different gifts I will give them the earrings that I had selected for them. They would be really delighted that is what I thought. Well they got delighted after receiving but there was one instance that left a deep impact on me.

I visited my cousins. I had packed the earrings in cute wrapping papers. One by one I handed over those packages to my cousins. They started unwrapping the gifts and were glad to receive fancy pairs of earrings. Except for one cousin. She was happy to receive the earrings but she wanted something more. This was one of my elder cousins who was supposed to go abroad for further studies. She liked the earrings that she had received but her face said otherwise. I asked her if she liked the earrings that she had received. She awkwardly said yes and then looked at me. I was little confused. If she like my gift why was she not happy about it.

My cousins eyes were glued on my ears. She was looking at the earrings that I was wearing. She openly told me that she liked the earrings that I had given her but she liked the earrings that I had been wearing the more. I took that as a compliment and said thank you. She did not stop there. She asked me so are you going to give your earrings to me? I was surprised. How can someone not be satisfied with the unexpected gift?

I had not reacted at all. I was frozen. I did not know what to do. This was such an entitled behaviour from my cousin's side. Other cousins were listening to our conversation. Unlike me they were not shocked at all. The knew what kind of brat my cousin was. I still had not reacted and my cousins also had not spoken.

Now my entitled cousin played a victim card. She started crying. Imagine a 24 year old woman crying over a pair of earrings. She started saying that I am deliberately keeping the best pair to myself. I have no love towards her to give away one thing she has asked before she goes abroad forever. This was the most stupid argument that I have ever heard. I said I like to all the earrings that is why I bought them I kept a few pairs for myself and gifted others to all of you. If you are not happy with the gift you receive you are just an ungrateful brat. Now my cousins started crying even more.

My parents and my uncle's heard the commotion and entered the room where we were a sitting. They saw her crying. This is when I felt I should give away my earrings to her. I want to not happy about it but it least I did not want to get into more trouble. I did not want to hear any criticism from any of my relatives there. I just wanted to end this. But I did this ugly. I removed my earrings and thrown them at her saying that be happy with what you get. I called her brat again.

My cousin was happy with her victory. I was upset with how I was treated. And my other relatives were angry for the way I acted. Yet not a single word was said to my cousin. She was loved and pampered. While I was scolded. This is when I decided that I am not going to give it anything to anyone without any occasion.

Most of my giveaways were voluntary. They made me happy. But this one just made me upset.