Reddit's High Value Asset That Made Childhood Brighter: For A 90s Kid In India, Pen Was No Less Than A Smartphone

Let us ignore the present for a bit and go back to living the bygone era. If you are a 90s kid, there is so much you still cherish about your childhood. After all, it was a time when all seemed perfect and bubbly.

It was the pre-internet era, so every moment was lived and revered. Small joys made the brightest of impressions and kids happily took them for the world.

In a childhood that was unique in many ways, the time spent in school was the most valuable. How can we forget a time when we wrote with our hands, scribbling out pages after pages of notes. It was a beautiful mess.

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When bored, we¡¯d bring out the fanciest pens to doodle out whatever was on our minds. Much like smartphone today, pen was an essential that made life ever so wonderful.

I remember that time switching to high school and finally being allowed to use pens. At that point in time, it seemed like an achievement that had no parallel.

That excitement of shopping to buy the coolest pens in the market, it just doesn't happen anymore. It was something that seemed to have died with the 90s kids, but the nostalgia of it lives through us.

Be it the much-admired Reynolds Fine Carbure or a little costlier Pilot Hi-Tech Point 0.7 - the tussle in classrooms was about who had the finest and smoothest writing pen. We didn't do smartphones then, thankfully.

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The pen wasn't just a writing tool, it was a gaming console, too. You can't define the 90s school life without playing a game of 'pen fight', 'thumb fight' and 'red hands' with their gang. The pen that survived the assault would be called the king.

You don't write such scripts anymore. The 90s was special. While pen was a high value asset, it was often robbed from its rightful owner. We stole pens, that was our real life Money Heist. The issue as petty as it may seem, was the reason for many scuffles. 'Pen zindagi hai', many would exclaim.

Every pen stolen would be brought to justice, that was rarely served.

While the 90s might be history, people aren't letting go of the wistful affection towards the pens. Many people on reddit are reminiscing the good, old days and sharing their tales of using the pens, that formed a solid part of the childhood.

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You can't fathom how important these pens were for a 90s kid, they have a whole childhood written all over them. While time might have passed, we sure can live with these memories.

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