Welcome to my first post in the Hand Written community. It is a brand new community here on Hive created by holoz0r. I like the idea for this community because it makes posts feel more personal. When I was in school and college decades ago I wrote on paper so much each day that I would sometimes get a blister on my middle finger. So much paperwork is done online today that I rarely get to practice writing on paper. I do everything from taxes to car registration online.
My third grade teacher taught the class cursive and encouraged us to use it in all the writing that we did. I followed this advice for many years until I was in high school. Then I began worrying about people not being able to read my writing and switched my writing back to normal print. I do think that my cursive was prettier than my normal print. I got plenty of compliments from teachers for my cursive. I also think that my normal print has been going downhill over the years. Most of the pen and paper writing I do is for stuff only I am going to read such as a shopping list or rough draft of a Hive post. That is it for now. Thanks for reading!
ninjamike
Sunday June 8, 2025
Thank you so much for contributing!
I never got my pen licence, and cursive was more of an engineering exercise than it was to move us away from using pencils and leaving flakes of pencil all over the school carpet.
I really resonated with the blister on hand, I anticipate as I contribute more to this community, I'll be strengthening my writing hand because the pen just feels like a lost art. I'm exhausted by the end of a single page!
Glad I could be the first (other than you) to post in the community. I was never one of the students making a mess with my pencil because I used a mechanical one most of the time. I prefer them today and my post was written using a .7 lead mechanical pencil.
I enjoyed mechanical pencils, I quite often got the refills stuck under my fingernails because I was so bored in class :)
Cursive is having an interesting time lately. At least in the States, most school systems around the country discontinued teaching it about two decades ago. But due to a combination of factors, including parent complaints and some studies that show people actually learn better when writing notes in cursive, many (but far from all) schools across the country are reintroducing it and teaching it far better than they did 40 years ago when I was learning it in school.
Interesting to know. It was about 35 years ago when I was learning cursive. Cursive probably is faster and easier since you are not picking up the pencil after each letter. So it would be better for note taking and having to write long essays.