I am highly addicted to walking on the streets and observing things that might seem abruptly ordinary to you. Looking at the deformed walls with shredding paint chips to well-built structures and smooth glaring glasses, everything tells you a story. People ask me that how I can walk alone for long tedious hours? Little do they know that I am not alone, I am always accompanied by a diary and a pen. From thoughts around people on the streets to birds flying around to find something to eat, I try to provide ink to these images in the form of words that land on my diary.
The above paragraph sounds interesting, right? But these are just imaginary clouds that I was trying to make you walk on. I don’t really do any of the mentioned things; Alas! I am just stuck within a 15.6-inch screen with a beautiful backlit keyboard, trying to put together a set of words that could influence you to go out and use a pen. It’s 18:31 (IST), the perfect time to go out and rejuvenate yourself while nature surrounds you, but I am not doing it because I’m so much obsessed with this keyboard, that I cannot let it go.
Everyone says that “To hold a mighty pen is to be at a war”, but they forgot to tell the world, that it is not applicable for the people of the 21st century. Hehe! We often hear that “A pen could stop or start a war”, and also, “A pen could do things that a sword cannot” but actually, we must update the outdated quotes. We have to replace a pen with a keyboard.
Is technology so much dominant that we lost ourselves to a mere screen with a set of few words? I myself used to maintain a ‘dear diary’, but that was 5 years ago. What I do now is just surfing through feeds and social media while my fingers gently kiss the glass of a 5.5-inch device to flush out the thoughts. Commenting on a feed or sending a text message to my loved ones, I usually run out of words while sharing my emotions, what I do about it? I use emoticons and there you go. When we were in the era of pens, inks, and pages, despite running out of words, we had to force ourselves to somehow explain an emotion and that was the real essence of writing.
What can we do to change it? Pick a pen and start scribbling. A keyboard is modern and in-line with technology, but a pen is what makes you different from the crowd. Write whatever you want but with a pen because every word that you scribble on a paper has a story connected to it.
