Why is a person's handwriting still considered important? When was the last time that any of us wrote anything that was really important by hand? Honestly, I can't think of the last time that I wrote anything that was seen by anybody other than myself with my own hands. It's all done on computers.

When I need to get in touch with somebody, I don't write a letter. I sit down and write an email. There is no hand documentation for any of the work I do at my job. All of the notes, and labor is recorded in the computer system. Nobody in my tech shop has any idea what my handwriting actually look like.

Where does a random thought like this come from? You can thank this last weekend. I do NOT like Valentine's Day, but that's a different journal for a different time. I spent a good portion of the weekend filling pages full of thoughts, ideas, and feelings surrounding this holiday. Four pages, front and back, to be exact. I wrote it by hand, and I have no idea why. One thing I did notice with all of the writing though, is that I have spent a lot of time perfecting my handwriting.

It's a very precise style based on what I've picked up through the years. Things that I just started doing randomly with my letters, and started applying it on purpose. I don't spend a ridiculous amount of time with anything I write, but it flows constantly. It's easily legible, and very close to pretty.

But what does it matter?

Nobody is ever going to see what I wrote over the weekend, and I have no reason to apply my writing beyond my own signature. Writing used to be important, because everything was done by hand. Now, not so much.