Comments on: Fountain Pen Collecting – the psychology of my madness https://staging.inkedhappiness.com/fountain-pen-collecting-the-psychology-behind-my-madness/ together, for ever and after! Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4 By: Debjani Banerjee https://staging.inkedhappiness.com/fountain-pen-collecting-the-psychology-behind-my-madness/#comment-4006 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:27:00 +0000 http://inkedhappiness.com/?p=3532#comment-4006 Well narrated!!!

]]> By: Paul https://staging.inkedhappiness.com/fountain-pen-collecting-the-psychology-behind-my-madness/#comment-3990 Fri, 30 Aug 2019 05:44:47 +0000 http://inkedhappiness.com/?p=3532#comment-3990 Personally, it is a connection to history. History is more than events and dates. It is our family — the family of mankind — story; a story to which we each contribute something few notes.
The vintage pens I collect are a tangible link to the people and times of ‘our story’. Each pen was held and used for some period of time by unknown persons who lived the history of their days just as we are living the history of our days.I will never know who held my pens, or what they used them to write. It could have been love letters, business agreements, or simple doodles in moments of boredom or important documents of state.

]]> By: Subramaniam ASA Pens https://staging.inkedhappiness.com/fountain-pen-collecting-the-psychology-behind-my-madness/#comment-3988 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:07:54 +0000 http://inkedhappiness.com/?p=3532#comment-3988 Excellent article.

I strongly believe, that the Fountain Pen love is there just not this birth…I was a pen maker/collector/seller/lover for births…I often get flashes of my pens from yester births..

I also believe, every pen I own at see or had, was by destiny…so I got ve utmost care and attention. To them..

I feel connected and a serendipity is every fountain pen occurrence in my life…or for that matter when it connects the dots with people like you, who have turned friends from mere customers..

My two bits 🙂

]]> By: the shrink https://staging.inkedhappiness.com/fountain-pen-collecting-the-psychology-behind-my-madness/#comment-3982 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:25:12 +0000 http://inkedhappiness.com/?p=3532#comment-3982 Janardhan Sir,

you have added another dimension to the story by adding about the sheep in wolves clothing … yes, i have written that deliberately. What else can you call these so-called fountain pen lovers who are compromising Saraswati’s enlightenment in search of Lakshmi’s blessings, that too by means most foul!

Yes, i am fully aware of what you have just hinted at, perhaps your greatness stopping you from calling these sheep / wolves out.

I had to pen my thoughts down, and am sure, Mr Ganguly will forgive me for trying to shift the attention from another beautifully written piece!

Best Regards!

]]> By: Maestro Prof.K.C.Janardhan https://staging.inkedhappiness.com/fountain-pen-collecting-the-psychology-behind-my-madness/#comment-3981 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 07:00:50 +0000 http://inkedhappiness.com/?p=3532#comment-3981 Dear Chawm,
What a beautiful article with deep insights into the minds of true collectors when we have many who are Wolves in Sheep skin posing as one with an ulterior motive of earning profits during their lives.
It was like Desmond Morris who wrote “Body Watching”, “Man watching” & “Animal Watching” which led to findings in human behaviour. You have now become the Desmond Morris of “Pen Collectors Watching” and have found their behaviours.
From the clinging on to an object teddy bears,(which is close to what Desmond Morris found on “why human beings take up to smoking” – which is because of the insecurity caused in a child when weaned off from the mother’s milk and when you grow up the Cigar gives you that comfort) The ancient hunters and collectors DNA, to a fixation and addiction for these possessions, to an anxiety buster providing the satisfaction, to a religious connotation of worshipping the fountain pen to finally maturing into a self-actualised person, realising that we are mortal and hence we try to live beyond our physical lives through the collections and the thoughts penned down for eternity becoming immortal, and seeking final salvation!
It is a wonderful philosophical way of summing up the life of a true fountain pen collector who wants to defy death and live beyond through psychology! Kudos to you Chawm, as only your mind can think in this!

]]> By: Rajeev Chauhan https://staging.inkedhappiness.com/fountain-pen-collecting-the-psychology-behind-my-madness/#comment-3980 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 06:23:35 +0000 http://inkedhappiness.com/?p=3532#comment-3980 It sums up beautifully. Iys addiction, its complex, its relieving, its invigorating, gives a high, ecstatic calming, soothing, crazy at tines and yes ITS MY HOBBY and I M Luving It.

]]> By: Y Shreyas https://staging.inkedhappiness.com/fountain-pen-collecting-the-psychology-behind-my-madness/#comment-3978 Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:21:14 +0000 http://inkedhappiness.com/?p=3532#comment-3978 Dada thanks for the clarification I have had unanswered questions for quite sometime in this regard ??

]]> By: chawm https://staging.inkedhappiness.com/fountain-pen-collecting-the-psychology-behind-my-madness/#comment-3977 Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:16:29 +0000 http://inkedhappiness.com/?p=3532#comment-3977 thank you. please register yourself at http://www.penloverskolkata.com we are trying to build a platform for fountain pen lovers 🙂

]]> By: Joydip dasgupta https://staging.inkedhappiness.com/fountain-pen-collecting-the-psychology-behind-my-madness/#comment-3976 Wed, 28 Aug 2019 09:38:15 +0000 http://inkedhappiness.com/?p=3532#comment-3976 Thats a very good piece of writing. Congratulations.

]]> By: chawm https://staging.inkedhappiness.com/fountain-pen-collecting-the-psychology-behind-my-madness/#comment-3975 Wed, 28 Aug 2019 07:23:04 +0000 http://inkedhappiness.com/?p=3532#comment-3975 they do, and how! i am suffering delightfully, just as much as, i am sure, you do 🙂

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