I think I am the only person on the planet who misses the hand written word.
Could this be true?
I know that technology has accelerated at the speed of light, and I'm doing my best to keep up, I assure you, but here's my concern: I've complained of it before, but does anyone miss personal conversations, the kind with complex sentences and correct grammar? Are we really so short on time that we don't type whole syllables, whole words, but use acrynoyms in everyday speech just to get through a conversation that much more quickly?
If I hear someone so O-M-G in that slow, drawn-out cutesy style one more time, I might actually scream. They don't even realize that they're being "so 1980's" with the whole Valley-girl attitude that they are laughable. And LOL has become a verb phrase? Reallly??
I know that after my grandmothers died I found letters they had written me when I was younger. I feel like I have actual evidence of their existence because I have inked verbage from them. It's priceless. Even the way that they penned their letters evokes images and memories from my childhood. The memories aren't even all happy, pretty ones, but still they are redolent of experiences from my youth, things that I had completely forgotten.
I may sound maudlin, morose maybe.
Perhaps I really am a relic and I should retire to my rocking chair on the front porch and let the world ease on by.
Oh...wait...since when have I had a front porch to sit on, one that was bigger than the exact dimensions of a "welcome" mat so that I could have an actual chair upon which to perch?
Oh, yeah, when I was young. It just really didn't seem like I was that old until I got a text message telling me so. lol (please note the sarcasm, it's difficult to read what with the electronic typing and everything...)
So true. I miss getting letters from friends and family. It's like having a conversation with a person; a text message?...not so much...there is actually a company out there that will make a font for your computer that matches your handwriting...I forget the name, but you send them samples of your handwriting, specific words they want you to scribe, and the font looks like your cursive handwriting...pretty cool, and a way to fight the impersonal text monster.
ReplyDeleteWell, I guess if you have to ride the technology monster, then that would be the way to do it -- it's impersonal personalization. And less hand cramping as a bonus.
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