The Paper doesn't feel anything. You can insult, berate and belittle the paper all you like, and it will never complain... never have anything to complain about.
The Pen has no sense of burden. You can tell the pen your deepest darkest secrets, unload all of your uncertainties and burdens on the pen and it will never complain... never reveal what it knows.

We do not have that luxury. For us, when we are berated, it hurts. And when we are told things, painful things, it hurts to hear and to bear. We may never complain or reveal, we may even happily bear the burden like pen and paper, but we will feel it.

When was the last time you felt the weight of the world on your shoulders? The last time you had a secret or needed advise? Who did you tell? And when you told then didn't you feel that much better? It's feeling the very tangible release of pressure.
Chemists teach that if you introduce two liquids together the smaller will often spread evenly throughout the larger... this is called osmosis. Emotions follow the same pattern. If you have lots of pain, or anger, or pressure inside of you, and then you tell someone else, the pressure spreads evenly over the both of you.



How blessed the gift of empathy, which gives us the eyes and nerves of our friends, that we might see and feel and share in their pain!

How lucky the pen and paper that they need not feel when confided in!

"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him." -Matthew 6: 1-8

People could learn from this. If you do something nice, or make a sacrifice, or whatever... if you do a good deed, don't broadcast it. Don't show that you are not doing what you want... if you want to make a sacrifice do it while smiling and never NEVER show that you didn't get your way, or that you are unhappy with the way things went.
Otherwise any good deed, nice thing, or sacrifice that you do is worthless.