Sunday, January 8, 2012

We Write Our Life Story, not Type Our Life Story

Twenty years have passed since I was 5 years old. It is when i have a hobby to write down anything. With a piece of paper and a pen or pencil, i write down, drawing everything, and I remember I make a series of comic books that never been published. It was fun, yes it is. The experience of "write down" something can not be replaced by anything, since today the meaning of writing is little bit changed. We "write down" everything "digitally".From the meaning I get at Wikipedia,
"Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols."
"Typing is the process of inputting text into a device, such as a typewriter, cell phone, computer, or a calculator, by pressing keys on a keyboard."
This two different meaning, mixed one with another. We make a blog, we said it is "writing", when in fact, it is typing. We often forget that. Yesterday when I take a paper and pen and writing for about ten minutes, my hand is stiffened. I dont know. But I think I must take a writing practice again since my "writing" become hard-readable.
Writing is to make a text written. It is an idea from brains, then our neural take place to move our hands to become a movement in order to create a text in a paper. It is a brain training, I said. When the technology made us dependent to a computer, PDAs, smart phones, and others, to write in a piece of paper is still needed. Try it. Try to write something down a paper for 500 words, and you will feel relieve that, it is a "real writing".

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