the ink pen

whatever happened to the ink pen???(quit the wisecrack,i know all pens run on ink,i am talkin abt the fountain pen).back in the good ol days,the ink pen was a very common sight,prolly coz of the very popular myth made popular by certain old fashioned english teachers that the reynolds 045 made our handwritings worse(wonder what has happened to that pen too).its an altogether different experience ,writing with the ink pen.the ink stains on the fingers at the end of the school day gave me such an immense satisfaction of supposedly having worked so hard at school .the impressions left on the fingers on having held on to the pen tight ,the superiroty enjoyed over other pens in a pen fight,and jus the sheer beauty beats any ordinary ball pen any day.the entire ritual of refilling the pen with royal blue chelpark ink evry altrnate night felt like shaving for the middle school goer.it wasnt until fifth standard that we were allowed to fill out notebooks with ink.pencils were the order of the day prior to that,to correct the spelling errors.i dont kno what happened ,but after a coupla years the people using ink pens diminished,partly attributed to the introduction of the ball point pens with the scented ink*(todays was the company,if my memory serves me right).students went crazy behind it,sniffing their notebooks after finishing evry sentence smelling the bubble gummish perfume .but evn at that tym ppl still stud by their hero pens and parkers for the unit tests and half yearlys.then came the advent add gel pens,bringing with it the sad end of the fountain pen era.i dont kno wat it was about those pens but teachers seemed to be in love with the aqua blue/turquoiseish type of colur.then they added grips to the pens making the use of ink pens for pen fights evn more redundant.but things are a bit different at my house.my dad still uses an ink pen,my brother is an ardent hero pen fan. the costliest pens in the world are still ink pens.but over the years i have seen its no. diminish from endangered to almost extinct.thiss will turn just as obsolete an invention as the film roll camera and the dvd player ,the floppy disk and the desert cooler.