It’s always great to write; to pen down thoughts, feelings, opinions, beliefs. It’s an inner voice which comes alive in the form of a pen..Err…keyboard. Many years back there was a tool called typewriter which used to be used by the authors of yesteryear. With the noise clickaty- clack clacking its way, pages and pages of stories used to get typed relentlessly.

Many years down the road, I sit and wonder what tool would be used by writers as a means to pen their thoughts. Would it be the blackberry? Would it be some magical device called may be…blueberry? Well, no one knows that. In fact, few years hence, authors/ writers won’t even bother to use a pen. A touch screen would suffice to toy along with the BlackBerry, and story would unfold! Voila!

It’s strange to believe how quickly technology gets onto people. How quickly and smoothly has a keyboard almost completely replaced the use of a pen. Today when I see the campaigns of some high profile pens over television, what comes to my mind is just one question- would anyone be bothering to buy themselves, or may be gift other a pen? A pen- which is used so less often in this era. A high profile pen has more or less remained as some status symbol belonging. It’s usage has most definitely dwindled, and the ink has most definitely dried up!

Why go far? The writer in me asks me to write all my blogs first on paper, redraft it, re-redraft it, till the final draft gets ready. But the quick fix solution thinker in me ponders—why go over and over and over such a lengthy process, when there’s a keyboard handy to do all the editing needed? And so with a straight contemplation I start off moving my fingers across the black keyboard….till I finish penning down the blog.

What prohibits me from writing with my pen? Is it the lack of willingness or a cloud of laziness? Well, that I don’t know exactly. Guess it’s a mixture of both—but one things’ sure. Due to this keyboard indulgence every single time, my pen is always perched up cozily in my pen stand. Till a few years back, half of my thoughts, which I desperately wanted to put down on paper used to get dwindled because half of my time used to go in looking for my pen, which used to lying about all over the place. But now that possibility is minimal. The pen nowadays is always where it ought to be—my brown colored cane pen stand. And my thought these days too by the way do not get warded off, because as soon as a thought buzzes into my head, I boot my PC and off I go- punching the keys relentlessly. So thoughts wise, its working well. but otherwise- i.e. the magic of the silence surrounding  writing, the effort seems to have gone a bit for a toss. When it was the pen, it was just the thoughts and me. But now when it’s keyboard, it is also the internet which is simultaneously open, along with the instant messenger- so some friend pings to say hi!, some long distance friend calls on to chat…..and amidst all this interactivity, I’m punching my way to finish the blog! So an element of undisturbed writing is just lost in the process…Anyways, but the “writer” in me is still struggling to juggle and put in a good blog along with the “ talker” in me who loves to catch up with friends. It’s a jugglery which I’m bent upon mastering, let’s see when that happens!

So coming back to the war of words between pen and keyboard, in today’s era, the keyboard has surpassed the pen in the most certain ways. That’s the truth of the moment. And this world full of technological upheavals, we indeed live for the moment. Because some spunky gadget might just be on its way to hit the market and our lives, which will vow to ease our typing efforts further on….So until we await for the prices of  Blackberry to fall within our purview and reach, let’s just also wait for some other similar fundu handy user friendly device which will surpass even the Blackberry and offer a variety of features.

The impatient writer in me cannot wait for the next thought to cross my mind’s path; but it can most certainly wait for some such magical device which will decipher my thoughts automatically, and decode those on my finger top/ palmtop/ blueberry….(or whatever that it’s name would be!)!

But till this happens, I guess I’ll have to go on with my keyboard!

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