Last used it for – making a ‘To do’ list. Even that was almost two weeks back. I look through the fat notebook lying on my desk. Only ten pages filled. Its use has reached an abysmal level for me. I look through my purse and surprisingly find 4 of them. And all of them working!!!
Feeling pleased, I open the notebook. The first page is blank. And like a school child, I enter my most prized possession on right hand corner--- My name. It is said that whenever testing out a new pen, most people will write their name.
It ‘s almost end of the day and there is no need to make a To do list. So what can I use it for? Well…I could write a blog post using it. My head starts to work feverishly : I will write my latest post on piece of paper in my ‘beautiful’ handwriting, scan it and post it. What a novel idea !!! I try searching for a blank piece of paper. After a lot of searching, I finally find one with one side printed. Doable, I say to myself.
Then why isn’t it here? Why this typed post in the same old font and format and the weird simple present tense (which I realized just now).
Well…I lied about my handwriting. As I started writing slowly and even carefully, after almost a paragraph, I looked back and realized that my ‘n’ s were indistinguishable from ‘u’s and ‘r’ was readable only due to the context. The sentences were slanting towards top right. And font size had gone from 12 to 8.
So I give up. However great my love for the pen may be, my thoughts cannot be ‘penned’.
As for the simple present tense, don't really know why...it is just how it played in my head as I tried to capture the flow of events.
4 comments:
That's interesting. Most people have lost the habit of writing with a pen. I still use an ink pen... the parker signature series. People tell me that it reminds them of their childhood... i then think if they are really fascinated what prevents them from using one. After all Parker does not sell only to me. The real reason is that today writing is considered a sin which one commits in college. Once out of college, people do not think of it.
@Subhash
It's not that I don't like to write with pen...I just realized I can't...esp if someone else has to read it :)
I really sympathize with my examiners :)
When one starts working, something happens to one's handwriting... As we put in more and more years of service, the more and more illegible our handwriting becomes! This effect is much more pronounced in the case of doctors and much less pronounced in the case of lawyers! :-)
@Suneel
Lawyers vs. Doctors effect...LOL
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