Let me tell you a story about two pens

Once upon a time (because no story is complete without a once upon a time), I had a pen called Pilot G1 precision 0.5 and I wrote with it all the time.

I wrote my exam answers with it, I wrote quotes from my favourite books and movies, I wrote daily tasks and activities on my organizer.

I could not, for the life of me, imagine myself without my G1.

And then I came to Columbia, Missouri, with only one G1 pen and no spares (one has to question the sanity of one who, instead of bringing a spare G1, had brought packets of instant soup that landed her in hot soup at the US Customs only to let the said instant soup languish at a corner of her bookshelf). And I lost my only G1 pen.

I thought, nevermind, I'm sure Brady Commons Bookstore would have it.

But I couldn't find any G1 in the bookstore. And I needed to write because I couldn't possibly go to class and sit there doing nothing and, when asked by the teacher why I am sitting there doing nothing, say that I absolutely refuse to write without my G1.

So I tried a Pilot G2 precision 0.7 but the tip was not precise enough. I tried my room-mate's Uniball pen but the ink was not pure black. I didn't even bother to try roller-ball pens because I knew it'd only make me want to roll around on the floor and scream for a G1 to drop from heavens.

Finally I picked a retractable Pilot V7 precision RT and told myself I'd just have to live with it. For the time being anyway. So I started writing with it, and at first I kept comparing it with G1. I'd think, V7's ink is too thick! My G1 would never have produced this sort of ink! Ooh, what wouldn't I give to have my G1 back!

I can't find a more decent picture of a black V7

But a few days went by and I thought, hey...maybe it's not that bad. I kind of like the way V7 scratches the paper and emits the krrk krrk sound. And I like how I can retract the V7, as opposed to having to bite the cap of G1 when I'm not writing on a table. And after two weeks now I'm doing fine with my V7. In fact, now I can't even decide if I'd want to write with a G1 again if given the chance.

I guess that sometimes we have to stop thinking that there'll be a bookstore somewhere around us that sells our favourite pen. Once that happens we'll realize that either we find another pen or we don't write at all. So we are forced to use a different pen that we think is so much worse than our favourite pen and at first we keep comparing the two pens and feel really sore about it. But sooner or later we'll be able to live with our new pen and more importantly we get to write things that we need to write with it.

I hope you like your pen just fine.