October 1. “Button, I feel our minds are mightier than the sword and the pen put together?”

“And why is that?”

“We’ve always heard that the pen is mightier than the sword.”

“What does that mean?”

“It means that the good as well as the damage a writer can cause by using his pen—in other words—through what he writes—is much more powerful that what a swordsman can do with his sword.”

“Is that correct?”

“Of-course it is. Don’t you see what Dost does week after week after week. The issues he tackles, the stuff he writes about—he’s moved mountains simply by what he writes.”

“That’s true.”

“But what beats both the pen and the sword is our mind power. It is only after our minds take a call or decide on something, does the writer pick up his pen to write or a swordsman his sword to strike down the enemy. It’s the mind where ideas and decisions take shape to be executed with a pen by some and, with a sword, by others.”

“Does the mind age?”

“Of-course it ages and it ages faster if left unused.”