Porcelain: Think-Check

A Story by Abishai100

Husband narrates his tale of how porcelain may become some gifted magic for his troubled wife, an alcoholic, in a bound-Romanticism image for what's a touchdown.

An unusual value-tale loosely drawn from the iconic story, The Gift of the Magi, which I think you'll like,

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I was thinking of the perfect gift for my bride for Valentine's Day and promised myself to get her regular gifts of porcelain, not necessarily expensive, for our (shared) Selfie-age of consumerism/life drawn everyday behaviors of social image fun, given porcelain material double-value of fragility and beauty (sure). This would be Facebook-like (surely!).

ESMERELDA: Porcelain, for regular gifts, for my alcoholism, eh?

ME: You've broken 5 so far, and I'll keep getting them for you/us, Ezzy (sure).

ESMERELDA: I'll break the next one...I'll keep this weird green one; I like it!

ME: Good, and each one you break, you contemplate the loss; it's not disaster.

ESMERELDA: Because it's porcelain, darling (hmmm)?

ME: Think about yourself (frailty/continuity)...not just me.

The magic act worked, and it teased out her resentment with a pseudo-humor language for adjectives (wow). Esmerelda was shockingly pleased, and it was all about the porcelain, not necessarily as fragile as glass, but surely representative of our (shared) Selfie-age of life-linked comments/consciousness for everyday behaviors...and home-life too (damn). Maybe this porcelain duality of gifting/breaking/continuity saved our marriage and helped her (Esmerelda); she finally decided to seek therapy for her condition, and for one session had decided to take with her a porcelain vase (wow). This was almost Facebook-like.