Your handwriting says a lot about you. Like, if your handwriting is really tiny and all scrunched up, that means you are shy and meticulous, and probably have a spreadsheet at home breaking down the time periods between dinner and bedtime, and what you are going to do during each one.
6:30-7:15 Bio writeup
7:15-7:21 Water break
7:21-8:07 Algebra
8:08-9:14 History
9:15-9:31 Rice pudding break
9:32-10:20 Aimless internet surfing
10:21-10:50 Panic attack brought on by friend’s Facebook update suggesting possible dating situation with the person you are interested in
10:51-11:40 Highly speculative chat session with third party that sort of calms your fears, and yet you are still on alert
11:41-12:05 Emergency catch-up reading for English class straight into
12:06 SLEEP.
Or maybe you're a big-n-loopy handwriting person. Maybe you dot your “i’s” with little circles or hearts, make happily fat and round a’s and o’s, and pen words that look like little snowmen lying down for a nap before dinner. This handwriting tends to be highly legible, bubbly, and upbeat, which is great most of the time, but puts you at a disadvantage when you have a pop quiz essay test on the Holocaust. In other words, you don’t ever want to dot the “i” in Nazi with a heart. It will not help your grade. It will probably hurt it.
How hard are you pressing? An easy test for this is to see how dark your writing is. Is it very very dark? Are you chewing on your pen cap while you’re writing, or twirling the part that is supposed to hang on your shirt pocket again and again and again and again until it grows weak and snaps off? Doesn’t that feel great?! Oh....I mean....you may have an anxiety problem. If so, then deep breathing exercises may be the thing for you. Deep breathing and the calming sounds of gentle streams trickling over smooth stones. Okay. Much better.
Or maybe you’re not pressing very hard at all. In fact, maybe you’re pressing so lightly that when you get your notes home, you wonder if you wrote them in invisible ink. Except when you go over them with the reappearing end of a magic pen, nothing happens. Because you simply failed to press down hard enough the first time. If this has happened to you, you need to believe in yourself a little more. Your pen is your friend. Writing is taking an adventure with your friend, the pen. Maybe you even want to name your friend. Lyle is a good name for a pen.
“Hello, Lyle. What do you have to tell me today?”
“Gosh, Big Hand That Holds Me And Makes Me Move Around, there’s just so much stored up in my ink tube, I can’t wait until you take off my cap and put my nub on the paper."
“I’m going to do that right now, Lyle."
“Awww right! Here we go! The first thing I want to tell you is that your fly is down.”
“Thank you, Lyle, I thought I felt a draft.”
“You did! You were correct! Now let’s talk about confidence!”
P.S. you don’t need to tell anybody about Lyle. He is your little secret, and he’s okay with that.
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