As I continue to embark on my second month of NaBloPoMo, I started to think about my great aunt. For all the year that I knew her, she would write daily in a hardcover daily planner provided by some bank in Thailand. She would write happenings of the day, who borrowed money and how much, and sometimes poems or short stories. In her car she kept a separate notebook to log her gas usage: the kilometers on the odometer at fill up, how many liters were bought and at how much? The one thing I remember most is that she had the best handwriting I have ever seen both in Thai and in English. She liked specific pens, no ballpoint! In English, she wrote in cursive, and it was so neat and perfect. I remember watching her one day practice her signature so that it would look the same all the time and people would not be able to forge it! She was an accounting educator for vocational schools as well as for junior college students.
Which brings me to this thought... do the words lose their personalization by not being handwritten? When my great aunt died, she left 60+ years of diaries in her own handwriting as tangible proof that she was here. When I leave this Earth, I will leave my words/stories, but in typewritten form on a blog. They will not be written for someone to hold unless they want to print them out. But, I know, from past experience, that if I were to handwrite my memories and stories, they would not get written down. I am better at typing my words and love the blog format. So, I have to rely on the words that I have written expressing the feeling and personalization for me. As in, you can hear me talk as you read my words. It is as if I am talking to you.
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