Once upon a time the members of
the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association realized that their sales are
going down with incredible speed and decided to create a new holiday – National
Handwriting Day. This holiday takes place on January 23 and its idea is very
simple – to use the opportunity and to practice your handwriting. WIMA’s
Executive Director David H. Baker even supported this idea with the following
words: "Though computers and e-mail play an important role in our lives,
nothing will ever replace the sincerity and individualism expressed through the
handwritten word".
Inspired by Baker, I decided to
remember the power and poetry of handwriting and tried to rewrite one of my
orders on the paper. It wasn’t too big, 2,5 pages essay written in 12-point
Times New Roman font. I thought the whole work would only take half an hour
from me.
What about no?
In the dreams of my childhood I
always imagined that I would have been a scribe in the Middle Ages. Now I realize
I would not.
It took me one and a half hour to
finish writing down this horrible essay. And I will not even post a photo of
what I managed to get at the end of my experiment. Okay, my handwriting was not
too good when I was a schoolgirl, but now it became plain awful. It is so bad
that now I seriously think I should have become a doctor (only they manage to
write down English words with symbols that slightly resemble the ones from the Arabic
language). And just to imagine that some teachers still require handwritten
assignments from their students! Pure torture if you ask me.
Honestly, I love my job as an
academic writer, but if I had to use pen instead of my laptop in order to write
every single order, it would be the end of my career. God bless the person who
invented computers!
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