I find this topic endlessly interesting, and not just in relation to pens. How to balance time spent enjoying what I have vs time spent of dreaming about/searching for/saving for something that might match a given need or desire more thoroughly?
The sense that it (whatever "it" is in a given case) should be costly in some sense (time or effort or treasure) persists in me, as does the sense that the search should stop when it stops being a source of pleasure in itself.
So far I've only bought one pen that I consciously thought of as a grail. And... soon I'm going to sell it. It's stunningly beautiful but not quite right for me in the hand--a bit too big and too heavy. Selling it will fund another. After that, there are one or two more I might try for. But my hope is that fairly soon I'll be shifting more time away from the pleasure of the search to the pleasure of use.
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