The pleasure of handwriting is slowly disappearing. It’s a shame because with that we also loose the feeling of our experience. Something that also cost’s us great memories after we traveled.
When I started to blog I thought that I could make my notes on my Ipad or Iphone while I was traveling and then clean write them back home. But God was I wrong. The traveling have made me rediscover the pleasure of handwriting. Mostly because I found the electronic texts so dead. When I write for hand my preasure and angel of my pen contribute to the story. Later at home I can see my mood at the time I wrote. Was I happy, sad, stressed or relaxed. Something that’s never possible in electronic texts.
I also found that one of the pleasures of handwriting is that it makes my brain work better. When then possibility to on a nice way make rewriting and rewrite again disappears my mind thinks a letter slower, making the characters grow before I write. It’s just like the difference between analog and digital cameras. In the first you plan more because there is a cost connected to it. While with digital you just shoot with no extra cost. Quality or quantity? Its almost the same thing when you write. Your words get inked in to the paper and if you want a nice paper your mind plans what you should write. Not that I get a magical novel in my note book. But I get a text written with some care and feeling. That lets me transfer my self back in time when Im home in my sofa.
Find the pleasure in handwriting at your next trip
Today I usually write al my travel notes by hand. A simple pen and a notebook gives me more pleasure to write then the digital text on an Ipad. It also creates opportunities to quick small notes in a street corner without being afraid of getting robbed. If you are on a budget or forget your notebook at home most hotels have a pen and a small notebook at the hotel room. And I can’t express my pleasure in handwriting better then Clarion who says that they love notes and novels.
So next time you travel, buy a pen and a notebook and find the pleasure of handwriting. It will make your memories so much stronger back home.