ALL IS GOLD THAT GLITTERS!

‘All is gold that glitters’. We know indeed that all is not gold which glitters, but, we cannot rule out equally, that ‘First impression is the last impression’. Consequently, we try to adorn ourselves in such a fashion that it may impact on others regarding our presence in front of them, and even we can assume that what may others are interested of in terms of the presentation we may adhere to. Accordingly, we subscribe with the view that, ‘All are gold that glitter’.

Gold is a metal which is a foreign element and not native of the Earth. We cannot produce gold till date according to our wish. It is the prime element, determining the value of all currencies across the world and the only parameter of exchange value.

An element of distinction, unlike any other element available in this planet and, out of its ductility, it is the most precious element to us. Besides, the labor required to attain its physical state is perhaps supreme, comparing to any other element, for which it has gained a distinct niche in human domain. We all crave to assert it since time immemorial.

Now, the question is, how we derived such notion that which glitters, obviously having an effective impact on us? It is perhaps our prolonged observation and experience that, how a matter may eventually impact on our cerebral, inducing us to become a minion to such inanimate object and how helplessly we subdue ourselves to its apparently dazzling beauty!

Shakespeare’s rhetoric emphasis, ‘Beauty lies on the eyes of the beholder’, is still pertinent and we are slave of beauty out of its magnificent manifestation in our spectrum!

Now, beauty is entirely a conceptual paradigm derived from our faculty and though it is abstract in nature and it is relative in sense, still majority subscribe to a certain quality of a matter, termed it as ‘beauty’. So, we can comprehensively deduce that, abstract form of quality is also a matter, and precisely our evaluation out of certain parameter are also matter, like atom, which we cannot see or touch physically, but we can perceive it in our cerebral about its very existence. Equally, we cannot rule out its supreme gravity too.

So, as our thought process is also a product, being derived from a matter and reflected in our eyes out of its existence in the mundane milieu we are surviving, we must respect and recognize the external world in and around us which plays the major role to impress our value system. It is the unique ecosystem which plays the key role to navigate us to attain sublimation, an abstract one too, to finally enable us to enjoy a decent and developed life.

Finally, the crux of the matter is, we must assert to attain our status like ‘Gold’, not in terms of sheer ‘metal’, but the quality which is phenomenal and being compared with the element ’Gold’ and out of such exquisite rendition, majority may emulate us to covet the same status, lessening the discrimination prevailing in our present societal fabric and eventually all may aspire to reach to a certain height of excellence, resulting us to yield sustainable peace. At least, we can be mentally satiated, that all people engulfing us are ‘Gold’, in terms of valued human resources and only quality human resources can ensure sustainable peace. It only can act as an effective tool to restrict greed and reduce envy and violence. After all, we cannot rule out, it is the ‘Greed’, which is the reason for all turbulence and chaos emerging consistently in the society we are dwelling with. So, we must herald a proposition emphatically and try to covet too, that, ‘All is gold that glitters’.