“Hey, can you pen down some of your thoughts to me regarding this issue?” This been one of the most widely used words around the world. Pen-down your thoughts, or just writing them and sharing it with everyone.
Look at me for instance, I was planning to write an earlier article on a subject and told my friend, I am going to pen-down my thoughts. But quickly realized I shall be using what Apple and Microsoft Corporation have provided, a iMAC book and MS Word. So where’s that pen-down coming from? Shouldn’t it have been, Type-Down?
Then I started to recall, when was the last time I written down something big, by actually penning down my thoughts. Yes I do use a lot of paper and pencil, as I firmly believe that there’s nothing better than those 2 little things, to get our minds working and making our designs the best. In fact, when my wife and I moved into a new apartment, we had to design the whole décor. We had to buy everything new. But we got it done, with the minute details, on a piece of paper, a pen and our imagination and I can safely say that it has come out excellent.
But its true, in today’s “COMPUTER” world, we are loosing the oldest art of human, “Writing”. We have become so dependent on the computer. Even my colleagues in the office would use the computer to get their ideas out. They would not indulge into the paper-pen concept, but rather use the computer to think about their design. The only time the paper-pen is used, when they have come to come in the meetings and seminars, where a computer does not become handy.
Haven’t we also lost the art of sending hand-written letters? Haven’t we stopped sending greeting cards, with our hand-written thoughts and words in the card? It’s the age of Email and E-greetings, where everything is either typed or clicked. Even some colleges are making their students get their laptops, so that they can type what ever the lecturer speaks about, rather than making notes on their notebooks. Where are our pens? Have they become only style statements? Are they being used only to sign documents? Or do we wait for digital signature to take precedence and we loose that art of signature as well?
I was watching a documentary on how the e-governance has changed the shape of the country and schools are making use of computer for the students. The students are now submitting their home works on email and writing, or should I say, typing their home-works on their home computers. Isn’t that a bit ironical, as a couple of decades ago, my teachers told me to use Ink Pens, as they would be better for my handwriting. So what are the teachers saying now? Use the computer, because your typing would be better?
When I was finishing college, we all had our memory books being signed by all our friends. I used to write pages for my friends and like-wise from their end. What are the students doing now? Writing Blogs and Testimonials about their friend’s on their home page?
When I was seeing my wife, well those days, the girl I was hoping, who would overlook my eccentrics and marry me, I would write long hand-written letters. She would love them. I had once tried to type in a letter, got it printed and gave it to her, and she had only a disappointing look on her face. Most ironically, that same letter was one of my best pieces to her, but it lost all its charms because it was not my handwriting.
There are companies, which value a person’s handwriting, because they are into creativity. So are we telling that handwritten materials are only meant for those hoardings across the city or those movie banners, which are sprawling around the city walls? Is it only meant for a painter now, and has lost its value for a “Computer” Savvy person?
Let’s keep this art of writing alive. Who knows, sometimes we would get our ideas across, just because it is handwritten, I mean after all, I didn’t get good points for my typed and printed version of that love letter, it was the handwritten one, which won me my wife 
- kNiGhTrIdEr
