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Despite the connection to slavery, diamonds, with or without that baggage, are still beautiful. They may not be worth the crazy money jewelers charge for them, but they beat an SUV any day. But I guess if the money was just enough for one or the other, it makes sense to be practical.
They may be a rock, but not just any rock, and their "shiny" quality is comparable to no other. The prices may be artificial, but they are still rare, and even if the price was fair, would still command a reasonable sum.
I would like to wear something with diamonds one day, if only once.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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