MSN featured a piece on cursive handwriting today. Oh boy! How long has it been? 10, 15 years since I last wrote them?? Nowadays 90% of the time I spend writing is on computer; what they call 'keyboard'ing. Could not quite call myself sms fiend, but I could do that pretty okay I suppose. Writing on actual paper using actual pen? 10%. Oh wait, make that 5%. Maybe that's also a little on the high side?
When did you last receive a real long handwritten letter that ran pages in printing, let alone in cursive? Or to lesser extent, a handwritten card (this is probably more likely)? Recent articles on the media touched on the evolution of English, how we write, form our sentences, how text-ing has creeped into our communication culture, et cetera. Yet this piece inspired me to write in longhand again, in cursive handwriting no less. It's painstakingly slow, but beautiful. Remember that neat English document (think The Declaration of Independence)?
Theory of evolution dictates that only the strong, the useful will survive. Cursive handwriting may not serve any useful purpose now, but I just hope this tradition will be passed on to our children and not become extinct like a lot of other traditions.
