Gold and Silver - The Faithful Friends

Several years dealing with gold as a metal didn't change a thing in me but when i studied the complete cycle of this yellow metal extensively, many things evolved in my life.

I learned that gold is neither a brand nor an object of personal adornment, but it represents history and value.

Simply gold is mined to get covered and stood to be a silent treasure and faithful friend to its master in different circumstances. On the contrary we, the humankind, who are unloyal to this safe-haven metal.

Because of the modern concept of money governing our minds and commanding our actions, we switched to pricing everything under our sight even human-being. We became looking at things at their price, not value and surrendered ourselves to the media, which changed our style of living making us so depend on gadgets, fancy things and trademarks to show a status of living.

The life had transformed to a place full of illusionists - known as financial analysts and white-collar individuals - who pushed us to follow blindly their views and forecasts to grab gold, hold gold or just get rid of gold, without rationalising our doing.

Over centuries, gold symbolised wealth that we aspire, but we took a wrong way towards this goal because of our confusion between richness and wealth. We looked at gold by its price, not value. Consequently, we throw gold away when its price dropped and jumped to acquire gold when its price skyrocketed.

I can see the same behaviour when people roam around others who are with deep pockets and leave them when they are in severe conditions.

Market players and financial institutions used this confusion to their benefits and dropped all ethics and values when they falsified gold prices in dealing with end-users and counterfeited its name in addressing regular savers and investors.

The floor became a place full of speculators acting as commodities traders and behaving in a dramatic way to show wealth.

Accordingly, people sold their future for paper money when game players and financial engineers transferred pooled people's economic realities to their territories.

We became consumer-race instead of the human race when we allowed companies to use customer experience in spotting us, and command media to promote their plastic model of living.

Economy engineers mastered how to rule the elements of customer experience, and controlled what we see and what we hear for our judgements and decisions to be as they planned and remain within their authority. We get influenced by people around us and look to adopt others' way of living. They mutated customer experience to become around myself and me.

Beginner traders wanted to get rich so quickly when employing smallest capital possible, expecting the highest biased return, and ignoring any risk taking. In the same time and if they lose, they throw a bad name on such a profession, and call it an unfavourable one.

Unfortunately, we are in a dilemma of confusion making us take wrong decisions again and again to satisfy emotions but never admit wrong doing. We look at competition as a symbol of a fight to break any opponent and trading as a knowledge-advantage game between us and our counterparts. We use lies day in and day out as a smart way of doing things, and avoid honesty because it stipulates stupidity