Tuesday, November 25, 2008

obsession or compulsion??

so i have been going through this weird phase lately in which i really care about my handwriting. it started a few years ago when i began documenting patient care at work. I saw my paperwork one day and realized i was embarrassed to have someone look at it, for fear of what they may think of me. Plus all those images and scenarios i had played out in my head about hadwriting analysis since middle school didn't really help.

I buy pens on impulse, hoping that the next new one will be "the one", always to no avail. i have been researching caligraphy, looking for templates and such, and that has helped a bit. what has helped me the most is when i found an article on the web (don't ask me to link you there, i forgot). it gave tips on how to improve your hadwriting. it's been as simple as writing out the same sentence over, and over, and over. The sentence contains all the letters of the alphabet. you focus on one word at a time, anticipating the next letter, so you can transition between letters conciously. The article tells you that whether you plan to write in all caps, or text or cursive, writing this sentence will help (for the aforementioned reasons).

Anyways, back to my origional point. I now find myself writing this sentence over, and over, and over. at work, on my free-time, sometimes in my dreams too. I have also taken to writing song lyrics (not my songs, just favorites) over and over and over. . . you get the point.

Should I be concerned, or can i chalk it up to self improvement?

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