The Ring and I

"Do you have a boyfriend?"

"Huh?"

"I see you're wearing a ring."




I answered my friend, Yabing, who has asked me the question and asked her how the ring related to having a boyfriend.




"If the ring is on the forth finger, it means you're married."

I nodded to what she has told me since it is the same for my culture.

"If the ring is on the middle finger, like how you are wearing now," she continued.

"It means you have a boyfriend and you're expecting to marry him."




She then tried to take the ring out of my finger.

"If you don't have boyfriend, you should take it off."

"I should? Why??"

"Because people will misunderstand you and they would not dare to flirt with you."




That is interesting for me.




The reason why I wear the ring is just because I don't want to lose it.

Knowing my self best, I don't want to keep it in my jewelry box (I don't have one, actually,) or my drawyer or whatever. I know how organized I am and also know how easy I can forget where I keep it due to my clumsiness and my bad memory.

So I just let it stay on my finger without caring whatever the meaning of it is.




But since I saw the seriousness in my girl friend's eyes, I let her take the ring off easily.

"Which finger you want it on?" She looked to me through the ring and asked.

"Any," I giggly replied.

"Hmmm, you are single. Maybe this finger is the best." She said and put the ring on my first finger.

"So," one of my guy friend seemed to say something to me.

"Huh?"

"Here," he pointed to my finger which there's my ring on.

"You are single." He said.

"Is that a question? Yes, I'm single." I laughed.

"Can I see it?"

I took the ring off and put it on his hand."




I saw him stared at my ring, turned it and saw inside of the ring.

The he grabbed my hand and put the ring back on my first finger.




"Do you know the meaning of the ring on the first finger?"

"Yabing told me about the middle and the forth finger, but not the first one." I was thinking if there are meaning on every fingers.... If it's not the meaning I want to hear this time, I would switch the ring to my foot toe.

"It tells two thing you are expecting."




I laughed after I have heard him told me what the things I was expecting are.

Well, actually, he's right. But he's right just a half of it.



Why?

Because I'm not expecting a relationship or a man, but it is the second thing he told me,



Money!!