My sophomore year of high school, I hit a low. I felt lost and unable to stay positive. Scrolling through Instagram, I came across a picture of a bracelet. Underneath the picture was a caption reading: "Sometimes you've hit a low, stay hopeful. Sometimes you're on top of the world, stay humble." I was immediately drawn to those words. Two minutes later I had one on the way.
When it finally arrived, I placed it on my wrist and looked at it. the malleable beads seemed to infuse a sense of clarity. Through the following weeks, I was constantly reminded that even if I was feeling down, a high was coming. The balance of life became more apparent when I had a reminder on my wrist.
Stay Humble and Stay Hopeful. Lokai bracelets embody that mantra. Containing two colored beads and the remaining clear, the bracelets represent one's journey through life in which you encounter both highs and lows. The black bead contains mud from the Dead Sea, the lowest point on Earth. The white bead contains water from Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. These two beads represent the balance between our highs and lows. The clear beads are meant to represent one's own journey through your own highs and lows. Life is a journey --we have both positive experiences and negative experiences but we have to keep our life in perspective and learn to understand both feelings and every emotion in between.
Not only do they have the original one, every couple of months, a limited edition version is introduced. The concept and design are the same, but with blue beads or red beads, even camouflage. When a limited edition design is introduced, it is always representative of a greater cause. For example, a portion of the money from the pink lokai bracelets go to the Susan G. Komen foundation. Each color represents a cause to bring even greater awareness of the lows and highs in the world.
Ever since my first bracelet, I have come to accumulate many. Every time I am hit a low point and find it hard to recover, another bracelet makes it's way onto my wrist. Today, my wrists house seven lokai bracelets. These bracelets never leave their place and are always there to remind me to stay hopeful and stay humble.
