Owning a Fountain Pen Expectations VS Reality
Don't take fancy writing utensil ownership lightly.
Expectation 1: Using a pen will inspire eloquent content
Reality: A pretty pen doesn’t change the fact that you’re just dumb when it comes to words. While you might not end up writing poetry, your love will keep forever; you will have some enviable grocery lists.
Expectation 2: Your handwriting will magically become as good as a professional calligrapher.
Realty: Your handwriting will become worse. It is as if, by some divine irony, the acceptable handwriting you used every day before owning a fountain pen will become shaky, like a newborn deer’s legs.
Expectation 3: Your designated writing area will acquire the aesthetic you’ve always dreamed of.
Reality: I hope you don’t like your floor because ink sure does.
Fountain pens are unique because they require you to fill up your pen regularly. Unfortunately for your clothes, this is a messy job for someone who likes to hurry, which is you, the person who bought a pen to be like their favorite influencer or role-play as a Victorian intellectual.
Expectation 4: You’ll save a ton of money and be, like, so sustainable.
Realty: The internet now knows you bought one fountain pen. The ads are coming. You might not think you would be the sort of person to buy 13 holiday-themed inks. Allow me, the ghost of fountain pen-owning future, to inform you that you’re wrong. Soon, your drawers shall overflow with fountain pens of all sorts, inks galore, and probably enough stationery to set up a fine arts shop.
I do like a good pen, but don’t really like fountain pens. I do have a rather expensive ball point I use for signings and was gifted to me. I love writing the old fashioned way on a notebook to journal. I use different color# each day so can tell at a glance when it’s a new day.
I think I must be the only person on earth whose writing did get better with a fountain pen.