You can be happy or stressed over small things. Like a ball pen. When you are in a hurry and all ten ball pens in your bag are gone so suddenly, you run here and there to see where all those pens have gone. A ball pen is the least of your worries but when you need to sign something or take a quick note and there’s no ball pen around, you can get stressed!

But why  do ball pens disappear? Where do they go? The answer is simple. It’s how karma works (lol). You get people’s ball pen and they get yours. Poetic justice, isn’t it? Of course, I’m only joking  about the  “poetic justice” thing.

The funny thing about bell pens is that when someone borrows it from you in a jiffy, you forget about it. So you look for a ball pen in your bag as if you didn’t let go of one. And   when it is your turn to borrow  someone else’s ball pen, almost instinctively you keep the ball pen. Not anything that you can be sued for but it’s theft just the same (wink!).

Seriously, a friend taught me something about ball pens. Put an address inside the tube because with an address, your pen can go home by itself. Or when someone is in a hurry for a ball pen, lend yours but keep the cap and by then you will remember that someone borrowed your ball pen.

If you’re the type who keep forgetting to get your ball pen back, don’t buy the expensive model otherwise you’ll be creating your own financial crisis. Don’t buy the very cheap ones either because before you know it your lips or your cheek will be all ball pen ink without your knowing it. Cheap ball pens have the bad habit of vomiting in public. They can ruin the documents in your bag or they can soil your clean white pockets.

Whatever you do, remember to be present in that particular activity. In short, be focused on what you are doing at a given moment. If you do so you’ll remember the blue or red ball pen cap in your hand and you’ll remember that someone borrowed your pen.