Luxury goods or rather super luxury goods are increasing at a fast pace.  Everybody wants to feel special, and I guess that is one of the categories a smart company will always know how to exploit.

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Forget about the $350 stilettos. Shoes with status these days come with $1,000 price tags. And $600 handbags have become so bourgeois. A-listers don’t want to be seen with anything costing less than $5,000.

t’s no secret that luxury sales have been booming over the past six years. But at a time when the average American is grousing about meager wage growth and feeling strapped by a 30-cent spike in the price of gas, splurging by the wealthy has risen to gaudy proportions as the super rich seek new heights in pampering, price tags and one-of-a-kind items that set them apart.

Complete story here. 

Have you meet people who are arrogant?  pompous?  haughty?

We may dislike them, but you will find that beneath many of them are human beings that probably have been hurt before, and therefore is putting on an air, just like you put on a body armor.  This allows them to bounche off their own feeling of inadequancy or insecurity, and bounce off the everyday arrows of life.

But there is more reason why you should not put on airs ( or armours), or to make sure that you are amiable and approachable.  Beyond the possibility that putting on an armour makes you odious, and unpopular, the problem is that a man in armor may not even know when he is attacked.

Your air means that you will be slow to see, slow to hear and even slower to feel.  You are not able to notice a lot of things that is evident to the perceptive viewer.

Your preconceived notions, as well as your feelings of inadequancy will hamper you from fully understanding situations or people, as you are looking people now through rose colored glasses.

Always try to be approachable, and always endeavor to be objective and observant by taking off those glasses.