From Childhood To Today

Looking through old cards, projects, essays, amongst other odds and ends, I had noticed something. The way I wrote back in elementary school- and even early on in high school- looks completely different from what it is today. Granted, I now have far more experience writing than when I was in 6th grade, but what I was noticing was not simply an observation in the clarity of my writing, but my penmanship as well.
Letters such as "r" were written as if they wer right triangles without the hypotenuse, while now they are written as seen in any handwriting workbook in a child's backpack. I noticed that as I was able to figure out that a certain letter would look better or be simpler to write, I would gravitate towards writing in that way as opposed to the way I had originally written them.
This, to me, is very similar to the ancient writing form cuneiform- which were originally somewhat complex drawings of each object it represented, but would become more and more simplified until the characters became a series of abstract lines somewhat similar to the originals. The way in which I had taken the writing taught to me has the same logic that those who wrote with cuneiform did: simplifying letters shortens the amount of time it takes to write. Though my letters have not deviated as far as cuneiform did, but they help me write, or feel as if I write, faster, and though I highly doubt letters will change because I write them a certain way, who knows I might start a sudden craze.

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