This is something I discussed briefly with the pharmacist at my job this evening and I figured I'd share it with anyone who reads my journals (few as there are). I recall back in High School when I was struggling with doing homework and my parents felt that I would benefit from going to a "Learning Center" type program, one of the many things that they had me do there involved taking something as simple as a pencil, and attempting to describe it to someone who has never seen nor heard of one before.

I really liked this concept, even though it was really hard for me to complete that task. Its interesting how in this day and age there are so many things that we take for granted because we just KNOW what they are, but if we are tasked with having to describe said "things" we won't necessarily have an easy time with "dumbing" it down.

So my challenge, or request, however you'd like to view it is this:

I want to see how you guys would describe a pencil to, say, someone from another planet, dimension, whatever, but describe the pencil and its uses without using any words or descriptions that we take for granted in our world today.

For some of you, this may be really easy, for others not so much. Regardless, just let me know your descriptions and please leave out any jabs at another person's intelligence if they have a hard time with it but still step up to the challenge.