Jewelry is a choice. If you do not wear it you will not die. When one wears jewelry its usually because the wearer desires to wear it. One can choose not to wear clothes, but that person is also choosing a consequence. Jewelry is personal, having a meaning that only you and the giver knows. Jewelry can represent power and once and every now again was a barter for food. Jewelry can make a statement or it can say nothing at all. It comes in all colors, shapes, and sizes, gemstones and metals. Jewelry can be heirlooms, passed along for decades or centuries, transcending time and space. Jewelry can be so significant that people are often buried wearing it. Jewelry can be simply fashionable or symbols of love, religion, culture… Jewelry can be whatever you desire it to be.