Pen Container is a harem

Pen Container is a harem

I have ceramic mug full of pens and pencils on my work desk. It has more than twenty writing instruments of various sorts – ball pens, Ink pens, pencils – black, coloured, use and throw pens etc. It is further cluttered with pen caps, rubber bands, few paper clips etc. Except a couple of ordinary pens that I use regularly, right next to laptop in the ‘rough’ note book, all others are a real waste. The pen stand looks like a harem – unused and underused!

Harem and pen stand are similar. Take a Look at the reasons:

 There is a lot of variation & variety in the collection

·      Of different shapes, sizes and colours

·      In their usefulness when they were acquired first and now

·      Their weight – light thin attractive pleasant / unpleasant to handle

·      Frequency of use – some never touched again, some held tight many times

·      Some seem right suiting to one’s moods

·      Some are clogged, dry, dirty and unattractive

·      Some have life to last a long affair

·      Some fulfil emotional needs and have a story to tell or recollect - gift, theft etc

 

Nizam of Hyderabad is known to have had more than 100 wives in his harem. But I see you can own a harem of pens and pencils - simply by collecting but not using them much.