1. Stationery
‘You jumped from your chair to get that parcel, what is it?’ Maa asked
The post-it flags I ordered last night
‘I figured, must be some stationery’
I know
This is what triggered the thought that is my stationery love insane? Is stationery something I really can’t live without? On my trips, at work, anywhere else, I can’t go without my books, specific pens and other stationery needs.
If I ever make a list of non-living things I can’t live without, I would get mad thinking about which book and pen to be added to this list. I think stationery as a list item will top it all. I can’t live without my daily journal, my specific pens, among the many other stationery I have hoarded in my house.
I have separate travel journal, blog journal and other books that I have made from scratch. I have my personal and work journals separately maintained. I am trying each day to better my journaling skills. There is no way I can live without all this in my life.
2. Laptop
The love for books, pens and other cool stationery arrives from the core love for writing. I am a book and pen person when it comes to taking notes. But, now for over four years I have been writing and publishing online on my blog.
And so the next thing that I can’t live without has to be everything I need to write my blog. My laptop would top this list. I own a laptop for years now. I have a cartoon network skin as its cover right from the time I have bought it.
I have a weekly relationship with my laptop. Every week, there are a few word files that get trashed, some of it gets published, and photos get arranged. Behind the scenes of my weekly blogging is observed patiently by my laptop.
3. Spectacles
I purely have stick to only non-living things in this list and my specs should top it. I can’t do anything without it. I have long sight and some cylindrical number in both my eyes which means that I can never get rid of my specs, I’ll have to live my entire life with it.
Somehow I am not sad of this fact, it is okay that I will always have to have specs but the only issue is I don’t respect it. I treat my specs worse than garbage, even trash I throw properly, keep safe in my bag until I get a dustbin.
But my specs, I have thrown it directly in my bag without a box and maximum times, it survives local train journeys with me in my pocket. I don’t know why, but I have taken my specs for granted from day one.
4. Shoes
‘What is it other than writing that you can’t live without?’ a friend asked this week
Travel, I replied
A one-word answer that has a zillion stories to back it up. But, if in terms of things, I can’t live without stationery, specs and laptop due to my love for writing then with travel, it has to be my shoes.
There are many things a journey can’t be complete without. Some specific treks and trips might have particular must-haves. But for me, no trip can be done properly without my shoes. I simply love the one pair I own now and that’s the same one I’ll buy again.
I can’t imagine the success of my past trips without the shoes I own. I am not a shoe fetish but I own two pair of trek shoes and only one daily wear scandals. I am saving up to buy new trek shoes as the ones I have now will wear out in months.
5. Phone
The other thing apart from writing and travelling that I can’t live without is people. This entire list comprises of things that I can’t live without due to the core love for writing and travelling. And with people, the thing has to be my phone.
I can’t live without my phone because there are many people I wish to stay in touch with and in today’s world, the phone is the only way. I am old school, I don’t mean staying in touch through WhatsApp. I call people I miss. So yes, for the few people I wish I always have in my life, I’ll need a phone to help me stay in touch with them.
Apart from that, my phone’s camera is my extended eye. I love to click pictures on my phone that I can later write on. It has been two years I am trying to get better at poetry and the way I do it is by clicking pictures on my phone and then writing on them.
Writing this list down has made me realize how life can’t function without a few things at all. I respect and take care of some in this list and completely don’t of others. This list is a good reality check that I should be more careful of things that I own as each of it adds to my being.
I hope this post was helpful in some way to you.
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