Before you open that laptop.. would you kindly think of the pen?

Well, I was just listening to some ad about handwriting and such.  It seems like it's such a dead practice now and what has been the most basic and intimate form of communication has become a second thought.  The speed of conversing by e-mail, text messages, and instant messaging in such an accessible form tempts all of us to cast aside the fountain pen and stationery and even claim that by making communication such a easy practice that it can actually connect humanity faster and better than before.

But as with any object, there may be at best two sides to a story.  Still there is something definitely lost in choosing the technology over the old fashioned penmanship.  The patience, attention, and care signed and sealed into a letter and envelope, down to affixing a stamp on that familiar upper right hand corner is a ritual to me.  It's seeing the imperfection (and perhaps perfection) in the faltering verse of a lover's writing that makes communication human.  Writing is a form very unique to the human species.  

What lies at the center of communication, of simple basic human connection is the values humanity holds important.  The changing modes of communication, the reliance on electronic transmission reflects the changing generations and the values we hold.