Everyone tries to revive a ballpoint pen that stopped working at least once, right?

At the beginning of my last article, I wrote about how I ruined the ink in a ballpoint pen.

Even when you think you've ruined it, you try to revive it at least once. Everyone does that at least once, right?

As for methods of revival, people try warming the pen tip or scribbling circles over and over on some scrap paper.

But I realized that I didn't learn this from anyone; I just do it with the feeling that it might somehow work.

I wondered if it was okay to keep doing this without any basis (suddenly), so I looked up what the correct way to do it actually is.

Then, I found the answer in the "Frequently Asked Questions" section of Sakura Color Products Corp.

It seems that scribbling circles was the correct way to deal with it.
I mean,the pressure of the instruction to stack up a lot of paper is intense.

I sort of understand that it's pointless unless you stack up a lot of paper, but I wonder how many people have piles of unnecessary paper at home. In this paperless society...

Wait, people who are paperless don't even use ballpoint pens in the first place, so maybe they don't have this problem...

Well, that aside, what's actually important is the note section below.

Is that so...?! Am I the only one surprised by the whole thing?
I've been gripping pens that stopped writing in my palm to warm them up or rubbing them to create friction heat, you know??
So it was actually counterproductive for my beloved gel ink pens...?! (Suddenly Hachiware)

And on top of that, if it's old, no matter how hard you try, it won't revive... no way...
Tell me it's a lie... please!!

I can't call myself a stationery lover anymore... I'm so sorry for talking about stationery when I'm not even worthy of the name, I just want to crawl into a hole and hide...

That was my realization for today.
I wish I had gone my whole life without knowing this if it meant avoiding such embarrassment.