Where is the traditional writing gone?

Where is that pen gone? Tell me which pen? Even if you find it where is the ink gone?

To say honestlyI don't pick up pen/pencil for months together. It is only uploading and downloading. There are some alphabets which I need to think over. I can't write with my pen. Yes I can type. A classical case of Writing Amnesia I suppose.

Frankly it's a cultural loss. More than a motor skill it has an ipmportantbrole in composing of text which I tend to forget.

The hand written notes speak more eloquently than what is said in person. What do you have to say? Do you all have the same predicament? kanaka

Dear Kanaka,


You are so correct, u have pushedme downmemory lane.Since school I have not seen an ink pen, nor ink, nor blotters or nibs.

In the Sixties we used to have Hero or Pilot pen.And we used to go select the nibs.and pens that could suck the ink directly , inside the pen was the contraception.But hands used to bne messy always, and the ink used to leak in our shirt pockets too.

Even I don’t write any hand written letters any more, barring some official ones, but dirty scrawly writing as I am lazy to go to the computer open it, write and then print.So handwritten is easy at times.

Great one.Regards.kamal

Yes kanaka... You are right... well said... Nowadays.. All writings are by keyboard ..Even the monthly budget is entered in PC only...... .

Their are many advantages in this..
But still ..we really Miss our Pen and Pencils...

Dear Kanaka

It is indeed a sad lament that handwriting is slowly becoming obsolete. In this technology driven world, it is eventually a matter of time before this art completely dies out. Even schools are inducting computer studies much earlier into the child’s syllabus, so that the keyboard is progressively taking over from the pen. The average standard and quality of children’s handwriting is appalling.
The downloading of class notes is replacing the good old fashioned blackboard.

While there may be advantages of a word document processed by a computer, specifically in terms of neatness of layout and typographical accuaracies, what I miss most is the personal touch that a well drafted handwritten letter conveys.
Electronic means of writing are so impersonal.

Even greetings today are sent by e-cards. You mentioned that the decadence of handwriting is a cultural loss. Apart from that, for me, I associate it with a sense of personal loss too.

I remember my old dad always used to post my Birthday or Anniversary cards through ordinary mail which is contemptuously called ” snail mail” by today’s jet set. He would take the trouble to go around the shops, select a card with the perfect words, pen a few lines on it, go to a post office, stand in a queue patiently for buying stamps and post it to me.

He did this year after year for all me and my family members, without fail and the cards stopped coming only after his death three years ago..

I do get e-cards from friends and relatives but the electronic medium masks the love and affection that a few handwritten words can portray.

It was not just a card that my Dad was sending me …

An amazing man, a magnificent human being. May his soul rest in peace.

Regards.

Originally Posted by kanaka

Where is that pen gone? Tell me which pen? Even if you find it where is the ink gone?

To say honestlyI don't pick up pen/pencil for months together. It is only uploading and downloading. There are some alphabets which I need to think over. I can't write with my pen. Yes I can type. A classical case of Writing Amnesia I suppose.

Frankly it's a cultural loss. More than a motor skill it has an ipmportantbrole in composing of text which I tend to forget.

The hand written notes speak more eloquently than what is said in person. What do you have to say? Do you all have the same predicament? kanaka

Thank God, at least children in school write with pen and pencil on paper and not typing keys !
I dont get any inland covers or cards for me, Only e-mail. And all posted letters we get is only bills and junk advertisements.

But i still write handwritten letter for my old grandmother in the village. That is once in 6 months or something thats all. After that, only writing is the monthly accounts and the shopping lists . That too scribbling.

Now sometimes i think , such waste we had copy note books in school , one full period once a week only for copy writing inside dotted lines ,and our teachers used to scold so much for bad handwriting and all ! And look now, feeling so great if we can hold a ball point pen correctly !!!

Dear Dolorcosta,

Those were not the cards but your own father's image. You would have definitely visualised your father inside the card. Ofcourse it will be a PERSONAL LOSS as you said.

Few weeks back I cleanedthe pen(fat,red in colour, with a black border) which has been kept intact by my husband. I will do my best to preserve that pen. I have purchased one ink bottle(black colour). We have also kept few steel pen nibs which was used during his school days his slate and his geometry box(Globe by name). My servant happened to be there. I showed her what steel pen means.

I have also used steel pens- perhaps that could be the reason- I have a beautiful handwriting. Thanks for your good feed back. kanaka

Dear Brindha, Dolorcosta

Actually your feedbacks make me more nostalgic. True we use to dirty the books hands and even cover page of textbooks. I have kept my husband's pen(REd fat with black border in the cap) steel pen nibs and his geometry box. I clean nibs also the pen. Regards. kanaka

Dear Kanaka mam

I absolutely agree with you and even today when we see the old letters penned with love, affection sometimes frustration or hatred its good to read on a rainy or sunny day with a hot cup of coffee and with mom's lap..

I used to write a lot when I was in college and right now just using emoticons to express our extremes..

rgds
Uma

Dear Twin,

Pl. keep writing anytime of the day/hour. People are dying to see the signature of Mahatma Gandhi. Hand written documents are cherished for ever. kanaka

Dear Swarna,

Thrilled to hear you send hand written letters to your grandma. These days school children use ball points. kanaka