My favorite piece of technology

There is a massive amount of essential technology devices out there that makes our life’s easier. Calculators, computer, construction machines. But there’s only one device that I can’t live without, the keyboard.

At first I was not interested in keyboards. The first time I discover it was in my grandmother’s house, she uses to have an old computer and I use to take every opportunity that she gave me to play with it. My favorite game was Age of Empires and, until now, I’m pretty good at it. But the game has hotkeys that allow me to do thing more quickly, so I tried to learn how use these hotkeys and improve my game style. And that is the moment that my interest in “how to use a keyboard” start to grow.

When I grew up I start to create stories in my mind, but quickly I began to forget them. I was just too lazy to put those ideas on a note. But one day I visit my mom’s job and there was a typewriter or writing machine. I was bored and my mom let me use it and, for some reason, it was the best evening of my entire life. I was able to write whatever I wanted and I was happy just to see my ideas and stories became a real book page. 

I imagined myself being a writer and making people enjoy the stories I wrote.

(The typewriter looks something like this)

I tried to look for more excuses to go to my mother’s job again but I couldn’t return. I was angry because I wanted to use the typewriter again and writing in the computer wasn’t the same! But I finally gave up with that.

I became pretty good at writing with a conventional keyboard and even my parents were surprised at how fast I was able to type.

Recently, I bought a mechanical keyboard for myself, it has leds and customized keycaps for "gamers". It’s awesome! I use it to write my novel and short stories for myself (because I’m too bashful about my own material).

I almost write every day in my computer and I cannot imagine me try to write large texts just with a pencil. It just couldn’t be possible for me, maybe I'd give up before I started; I’m too used to type.

(And this is my actual keyboard)