Handwriting is Personal
Hand-writing is personal- have we forgotten?
When was the last time you wrote someone a letter…with pen and paper?
I recently scrolled past an article dedicated to teaching the method of writing a personal letter. Of course, I’ve since searched for said article, but I can’t find it. However, it did get me thinking about handwriting.
I have written countless, hand-written letters over the course of my life. As a girl growing up in the 90’s, it was almost a requirement to write someone a note, folded into a cute heart or quirky arrow. And when your crush passed you in the hallway and covertly slipped you a letter…oh man! You better believe I read and reread those letters, coveting them as priceless treasures.
Ahh, middle school.
I’m sure those notes were only filled with the latest teenage drama, but as I look back now, I realize just how special those pieces of notebook paper were.
We live in a tech-savvy age. And, while technology is wonderful in so many regards, it’s kind of pushed hand-written letters aside. There’s not really a need to physically grab paper and pen when you can text it.
Think about it: when was the last time you received a note? A real letter, written on college-ruled paper in black ink? When I think about it, I must have spent hours writing those letters to fiends and crushes. No wonder my grades were never the greatest.
Although my letters from school have long since disappeared, I have a few letters from my grandmother. I keep them, not for what she wrote necessarily, but because of the fact that she wrote them. They’re treasures to me, tangible pieces of paper that, in some way, hold a piece of her. And it’s because they’re written by her, in her own unique handwriting.
Handwriting: something so simple, and yet such a gift.