The story of pencil

Pencils are sold with erasers attached only to make them angry. For obvious reasons sharpeners are not so attached. The erasers undo what is done with pencils. Computers are a recent phenomenon, whereas pencils are about 2000 years old.

The black-lead pencil is a euphemism since no lead is available in it. It has just graphite inside.  With a pencil we can mark a line around Hyderabad if its perimeter was about 70 kms, or even write a novel of 35-thousand words or so, not counting those erased words during the editing. The astronauts in the outer space can use them instead of pens that won’t work. Sometimes the writer’s ears become the resting places of pencils like we see them over the tailors’ ears or it can be painters or even editors. Sometimes they are used to clean one’s ears or jab at someone with it to wake up.

Students play with pencil like jugglers do, to pass their time in the class.

Pencils are meant to be thrown at others if one gets angry, I mean with the people, or even with pencil itself, if its needle is broken or is not sharp enough.

Some collectors love different pencil boxes in varied designs and colors. What else one can do with pencil? There are different grades of pencils like H to 9B grades with some in water colors or as soluble pencils, magic pencils, etc. If the number is higher, it means they are harder whereas ‘H’ says it is a just hard pencil. ‘B’ indicates it is black. HH is too hard and light at the same time and ‘F” indicates its finer point.

Some people go crazy and sharpen their pencils unnecessarily and leave a lot of wood shaving; what a waste of trees. But thank god, nowadays they are being made from plastic.  In the end, some pencil sketches are wonderful to look at and it needs more skill than a painter got.