I’ve spent thousands of pesos on notebooks.
Most of them are blank because I deem them too beautiful to be written on. Every now and then I’d take them out and smell them, for the pages have aged and there would be this unique musty smell that hangs around.
I keep them and don’t write on them because I vowed to myself that for their beauty, they must contain the same value of exquisite words; words that are yet to come to my mind. I’ve always been a perfectionist; a critique of my own works. I have written beautifully, but they don’t always make the cut on what could be inside these notebooks.
This is my reason. Either that, or I can sense that with the technology we have now, notebooks might go extinct. Because in a few years time, everybody would be tapping on keys to record their thoughts, and pen and notebooks would be thrown aside.
(via abidee)