just a thought(s)
I was wondering about some things.
For example, before December 26th how many times in your life time did you ever say the word "tsunami"? Since that fateful day how many times have you said the word?
Isn't that interesting how a certain event or occurrence changes our vocabulary in such a dramatic way. Another example, 9/11 is now part of our mental verbal dictionary and pre-2001 it never was. Just goes to show how life is ever-changing and there is something new, something different just waiting to happen and waiting to change us in some subtle or dramatic way.
The (s) part of the blog. There are people who love to act out words when they talk. For example, some people point to their wrist when asking the time, or some pat their stomachs to indicate they are full. Well in the good old day when someone wanted to say they wrote something they would position their hand as if they were holding a pen and then scribble in the air. Nowadays, as I realised when it happened to me, when someone asks well what did you do yesterday or over the weekend, and I was trying to tell them I did some writing, I actually positioned my two hands as if I was typing and danced my fingers a little to stress the motion.
Which led me to wonder, are writers writers anymore or are they really glorified typists ? Hi I am a typer, not a writer anymore, is maybe what correction should be made. It will be interesting to note how much use is made of the pen. Remember that? The pen? That cylindrical object we used in conjunction with paper to "write" things ? Paper has continued its ascendancy with "the pen's" old ally "ink" and through "printers" it continues to be with us, but the good old "pen" is fast becoming resigned to a mere mantlepiece in our shirt pockets and our desktops.
Moral of the story I suppose, in life be the paper and not the pen ? Or at the very least be the ink.
Till other moments of idleness strike,
Shobhit
For example, before December 26th how many times in your life time did you ever say the word "tsunami"? Since that fateful day how many times have you said the word?
Isn't that interesting how a certain event or occurrence changes our vocabulary in such a dramatic way. Another example, 9/11 is now part of our mental verbal dictionary and pre-2001 it never was. Just goes to show how life is ever-changing and there is something new, something different just waiting to happen and waiting to change us in some subtle or dramatic way.
The (s) part of the blog. There are people who love to act out words when they talk. For example, some people point to their wrist when asking the time, or some pat their stomachs to indicate they are full. Well in the good old day when someone wanted to say they wrote something they would position their hand as if they were holding a pen and then scribble in the air. Nowadays, as I realised when it happened to me, when someone asks well what did you do yesterday or over the weekend, and I was trying to tell them I did some writing, I actually positioned my two hands as if I was typing and danced my fingers a little to stress the motion.
Which led me to wonder, are writers writers anymore or are they really glorified typists ? Hi I am a typer, not a writer anymore, is maybe what correction should be made. It will be interesting to note how much use is made of the pen. Remember that? The pen? That cylindrical object we used in conjunction with paper to "write" things ? Paper has continued its ascendancy with "the pen's" old ally "ink" and through "printers" it continues to be with us, but the good old "pen" is fast becoming resigned to a mere mantlepiece in our shirt pockets and our desktops.
Moral of the story I suppose, in life be the paper and not the pen ? Or at the very least be the ink.
Till other moments of idleness strike,
Shobhit
posted by SIAII at 10:02 AM
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