Memento Cufflinks
August 19th, 2009
It is something that you don’t really want to admit to yourself—the fact that you are actually about to own a huge collection of cufflinks after having attended numerous gala nights, cocktails, and black tie events hosted by your boss or your girlfriend’s boss.
You know you hated to wear a suit back in high school but you just have to go to the prom or they’ll brand you the school nerd. But now that you’re out in the real world, the humiliation you felt back then suddenly became a fact of life that you have to endure with eyes wide shut.
Eventually, you’ll learn how to take these things even if you know for a fact that going out on a Friday night among people whom you know are not like you but eerily look like you is not going to be your idea of fun. Yes, you laugh. You talk. And everyone likes you when you do but at the end of the day, all those eerily familiar moments that you have already expected the moment you picked that pair of designer cufflinks from your 8 pair refined cufflinks case, will suddenly haunt you to sleep.
So you go grab those cufflink boxes and one by one, removed what has been left of your collection of social nightmares. Right then and there, you knew that nights like that will happen over and over again until your retirement age. You knew that you just have to endure because more than you expecting all these to happen during Friday nights, the rest of the world is expecting these to happen to you to. And that’s even more valid reason.
