How’s Your Handwriting?
I write every day. I write blog posts, custom content for clients, vendor profiles, texts, tweets, status updates, photo captions, emails — all on a keyboard.
Yesterday I tried to write a personal note — on paper with a pen — and I almost couldn’t do it. What has happened to my penmanship? When did I lose the ability to spell on the fly? Why did my fingers cramp up so quickly?
I think it’s time to get a journal. I think it’s time to prepare my handwriting — and my brain — for the day that the Internet really is dead.
How’s your handwriting?
Let’s hope the day doesn’t come when the Internet is dead! But I hear ya on the whole hand-cramping, crappy penmanship issue. I can barely write someone a birthday card message without feeling like I’m just learning to hold a pen.
Just seconds before I read this, I signed a co-worker’s birthday card with all the skill of a four-year-old. Seriously, I was shocked at how clumsy and forced those dozen or so words looked.
Of course, my typing is barely better. I think I’ll stick to grunts and hand gestures for a while.
So I’m not alone? I take great comfort in that… Thanks, y’all!
I still write in a paper journal… but only when I can muster up the motivation to power through the inevitable handwriting deterioration and hand-cramping. I really can’t figure out how I used to take SO MANY pages of notes in school. I miss handwriting things, honestly.
Maybe we need to start some sort of old-fashioned pen pal program…