A pen for your thoughts?

For a minute, let’s stop wondering who really assassinated John F Kennedy. Let’s stop questioning if we really did land on the moon. And please, let’s stop deliberating Brittany Spear’s domestic life. Just for a moment, let’s reflect on one of life’s bigger questions…where do all our pens go?

Everyone on the face of the planet, who has ever put pen to paper, has lost one. And since we are not in a matrix scene where the pen really wasn’t there in the first place, the question remains… where do they all end up?

Is it a mega conspiracy spawned by a greedy pen conglomerate? Think about it. The life of a ball pen (this is pure approximation, since I’ve never really finished a centimeter of ink before losing it) is probably a 100 pages of intense office paper work, or 300 signatures on credit card receipts, depending on which side of the cash counter you’re born on. That coupled with the whole paperless, computer-age should spell inky doom for these companies. But they’re still making more pens. And we’re still buying smoother, easy flow, unbreakable, talking, glow-in-the-dark new ones as replacements. Every day.

One thing's for sure, it's not all black and white.