wear sunglasses!

Buz Luhrman wrote 'wear sunscreen'..I write 'wear sunglasses'!
Amazing accessories--they conceal, they reveal. Are they always worn as a shield against the sun? Well..that's there and maybe much more to it.
Why would someone spend $90 (not quoting prices paid by people who belong to the category of don't-know-what-to-do-with-money aka orange county and hamptons' citizens)on a pair of shades/coolers/sunglasses which can be bought for a mere $15?Why buy 'branded' ones when you can buy them from the street shop?Or even, why would men and women alike,own more than a pair of sunglasses when one pair is good enough for keeping them un-tanned?(I ask that to myself as well, being a proud owner of quite a few pairs!) Coz, like shoes,belts,bags,watches yada yada yada...sunglasses in the modern consumer's urban world are viewed as the must-have-beauty-accessories too! (And oh yeah-men have them too;maybe the ones labeled 'metrosexual' have more!!)And why not?
They come in different shapes, colors and sizes and can turn any ordinary-looking homo sapien into an attractive damsel or a smart dude! not to mention of course the 'cool' quotient associated with it. And considering that some part of the intellectual society is still engaged in the endless yet unfair debate about whether beauty matters or whether good looking people get better jobs and better halves,who doesn't want to take a shot at looking nice(and here sunglasses have a double virtue:by not getting tanned you look good an they make you look cool as it is..voila!)
And they hide too--they hide emotions, they hide expressions-simply by virtue of the feature that they hide the eyes. post-breakup,walking down a familiar road and passing the restaurant full of memories and hence eyes watering which is embarrassing in public?wear the shades!
Abusive husband, has the habit of drinking and beating up wife and need to hide the scars when going out?wear those coolers! Super awesome sex/watching Godfather-all 3 parts back to back/trying to finish long-pending work/listless in love--and hence no sleep at night but wake up with bad dark circles(of course here it's only the female species!) which need to be hidden coz it's a whole new days and need to look fresh-wear the sunglasses!
The stories behind each of those pairs are so divergent, so diversified...just as the stories behind the faces...
And often times they even can conceal who exactly you're looking at(drooling over?) in a busy intersection ;-)
So if you're a quintessential urban resident attempting to make a living in every sense, be it the harsh New York or the soft California, whether you look pretty or ugly (according to the 'onlooker'), whether you're 20 or 50, whether you're married or single and whether you care or not-Wear Sunglasses my friend!