Normalize Penmanship

The future is here, and most of the human interaction is digital. Outside of solicitors looking to FORCE, I mean encourage us to vote or switch insurance providers via the mail. Well, I am about to reveal my age here, but I was raised during the transition era. For example, in my freshman year of high school, I would handwrite a 5-page report, and then by 12th grade, every essay or report had to be typed and printed. A few years later, the introduction to cursive writing became obsolete. Anyone born after the year 2000 will not have a unique signature to sign their lives away (smile).

On a serious note, handwritten material required attention to detail to ensure legibility. The reader either felt special or knew something was profoundly serious. Handwritten notes or letters are how those from times pass communicated to deliver bad news and great news. Nowadays, emails, text, private messages through social media, and facetime communication are our norm. With autocorrect built-in in most devices, we do not have to put much thought into what we say. The mobile devices pretty much have us HUMANS figured out (no privacy).

NORMALIZE PENMANSHIP, especially with intimate interactions. Stop sending long text messages to express how you feel and write a letter to leave on the kitchen table or mail to someone special. Heck, handwrite when you are fed up with a situation, I am sure the reader will take you seriously. More importantly, handwrite to yourself, JOURNALING. Writing in a journal can be so therapeutic and release the many thoughts that take up mental space. Journaling can be a stress reliever and an eye-opener to self-awareness. On that note, stay tuned for Write For You journals.

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