Shapes of alphabets
As I look back through my school years, I realise how our teachers and parents gave a lot of importance to writing, mainly cursive writing. It took months or rather years for us to understand and learn the shapes of the alphabets. More difficult part was to get the hang of connecting these shapes in lower cases and balancing them on the four lines.
Eventually, when people tell me today, that you have a beautiful handwriting, I always look back to the years of training, practice and hardwork that my mom and I did, to get a hang on this writing. The flow and semi gel ink of the Lexi pens enhance the shine in my handwriting.
A few days back, as I sat down with my niece to help her with her project at school, I expected a lot of rulers and pencils and sketch pens to write down the title in a stylish and attractive way. To bring out more colourful pens to outline every picture that we pasted. However, ultimately, we sat down with a boring laptop, peeping into the screen and Googling stuff, copy pasting using MS word and MS paint.
I felt dull, but I still helped her out. The school wanted a clean printed project. Later in the day, when I was chatting with her about my school days, I promptly told her to use Lexi pens as they are very comfortable and smooth. She suddenly said, “Yeah Bua, I use Lexi gel pens only, but we don’t use pens in school as much as you said you did.” I really felt sad about it.
The computers and typing and automation is really pushing the children to forget the art of clean writing. The world is moving from writing to typing and that’s sad. Probably, in a few years down the line, there wouldn't be any ‘four-line notebooks’.
I get nostalgic with every Lexi pen I use, it takes me back to the Lexi 5n version which I used during my boards and then I remember how I used Lexi V10 (the gel pen version) during my degree course exams and post graduate ones. The speed and grip that these pens offer me while writing, helped me concentrating on my exams
