I was talking with some friends today, and I remembered how special something was to me that my brother gave me….not just because of the words he had written (which did mean the world to me) but because it was in his very own handwriting. It was like receiving a part of him physically….like a touch…a hug. This is even that much more special to me because he died fourteen years ago. I loved him so much and cherish the three physical things that I have left to remember him by….
a picture (that my mom took of us when I was about five or six)
a card (that he got for me the Mother’s Day before he died)
a written letter (of words of wisdom during a very tough time in my life)
While I think the words would mean just as much to me even if he had typed them, I love that I feel like I still physically have a little piece of him with me because it was handwritten.
I know so many diaries are typed and published, but I think when the person means something to you that handwritten adds something very special.
Now, personally, I have a problem with this…because I think my handwriting sucks. And this is absolutely silly. My brother didn’t have the best handwriting in the world, but I LOVE it because it was his…it was a part of him.
Now, my second problem with this is that I hate to write…lol I’m too much of a perfectionist and think too fast for handwriting. So, in our age of technology, I am thinking that I saw somewhere where you could turn your handwriting into a font. I’m not sure if this would be the same or not, though. I think it would be better than typing…just not sure if it would be as good as handwritten.
I wonder when they say “the lost art of letter writing” do they mean handwritten? After all, we still write…probably now more than ever with e-mail and the internet, so I would assume they mean handwritten letters. Isn’t that interesting that it is referred to as an art?
Just for posterity….lol
