Love this. I agree that handwriting feels very intimate. Every time I see something written on paper by my late father, I feel like I'm somehow close to him, knowing that his hand was once there.
Thank you for sharing that! I keep all the notes my mother writes for me, even the instructions on how to take care of the house when she goes out of town.
I loved reading this Tiffany. I've always written by hand in my journals, and I feel like I am simply not the same person if I'm not always scribbling. Leaving my journal at home feels like leaving part of my soul behind sometimes - even if I don't end up writing that day! However, I always struggled with writing “real” things on paper because of that friction. I always assumed that it was a problem, but reading this shifted my perspective in such a beautiful way. I can't wait to experiment!
I feel the exact same way! Not having my journal handy gives me such anxiety. And there’s no such thing as what’s ‘real’ enough to be on paper. I absolutely adore a half baked thought scribbled on napkins. That’s how Pixar was created!
You just reminded me of when I was on an airplane suddenly consumed by huge grief regarding my relationship with my mother and how the only thing I had handy were napkins and how I wrote on them like my life depended on them that flight AGH ur so right
Soo good! I only tend to make my to do lists by hand and sometimes in the middle of my workday I'll scribble how I'm feeling in the margins of my meeting notes but you've inspired me to hand write a whole piece (outline to first draft)
thinking about how a semilocal friend of mine (lives an hour away or so by bus)'s been initiating a penpal type situation with me and it's cute, love to see their sweet handwriting :-] and made me realize i maybe need nicer pens to write with... may well drop by the stationery store today now that i say that? i may or may not have also used the power of having a printer (color, laser, hand-me-down from another friend's bf) to print out an ig story screenshot of my crush to go with my reply letter, sorry [redacted] hahahah
Love this. I agree that handwriting feels very intimate. Every time I see something written on paper by my late father, I feel like I'm somehow close to him, knowing that his hand was once there.
Thank you for sharing that! I keep all the notes my mother writes for me, even the instructions on how to take care of the house when she goes out of town.
I loved reading this Tiffany. I've always written by hand in my journals, and I feel like I am simply not the same person if I'm not always scribbling. Leaving my journal at home feels like leaving part of my soul behind sometimes - even if I don't end up writing that day! However, I always struggled with writing “real” things on paper because of that friction. I always assumed that it was a problem, but reading this shifted my perspective in such a beautiful way. I can't wait to experiment!
I feel the exact same way! Not having my journal handy gives me such anxiety. And there’s no such thing as what’s ‘real’ enough to be on paper. I absolutely adore a half baked thought scribbled on napkins. That’s how Pixar was created!
You just reminded me of when I was on an airplane suddenly consumed by huge grief regarding my relationship with my mother and how the only thing I had handy were napkins and how I wrote on them like my life depended on them that flight AGH ur so right
Journaling has become a super fulfilling practice for me. It just hits so different than typing.
Journaling feels wrong typed out - I feel like the written format keeps me honest with myself
Soo good! I only tend to make my to do lists by hand and sometimes in the middle of my workday I'll scribble how I'm feeling in the margins of my meeting notes but you've inspired me to hand write a whole piece (outline to first draft)
Yes! Remember the feeling of dread when you had to write multiple drafts? The way starting all over makes you rethink
thinking about how a semilocal friend of mine (lives an hour away or so by bus)'s been initiating a penpal type situation with me and it's cute, love to see their sweet handwriting :-] and made me realize i maybe need nicer pens to write with... may well drop by the stationery store today now that i say that? i may or may not have also used the power of having a printer (color, laser, hand-me-down from another friend's bf) to print out an ig story screenshot of my crush to go with my reply letter, sorry [redacted] hahahah