Intro

We are all stuck to a screen on a daily basis, we all know it’s not really a great experience. Why is it that we have forgotten about our past ways of writing by hand and putting down thoughts on paper when you needed it the most.

When did it all start?

In the time (3200BCE) when writing was used to instill knowledge, bring over messages to different generations and to start longer distance communication, these didn’t immediately start with the latin alphabet we know today. The start was mostly with drawings on the walls inside caves and later on, imprinted on clay tokens. These were often used to keep track of trades and farm goods and progress. Right around 1500BCE the Phoenician script got introduced which is more similar to the alphabet we are used to now, which got more mainstream a couple centuries later. Besides the Latin alphabet, we are currently still using a couple other scripts, which are the following:

  • Latin (Roman) Script: Used by over 4.9 billion people. It writes languages like English, Spanish, French, and Vietnamese.
  • Chinese (Han) Characters: Used by 1.5 billion people. It writes Mandarin and other Chinese languages.
  • Arabic Script: Used by 828 million people. It writes Arabic, Persian, and Urdu.
  • Devanagari Script: Used by 480 million people. It writes Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali.
  • Cyrillic Alphabet: Used by 350 million people. It writes Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian.
  • Bengali Script: Used by 300 million people. It writes Bengali and Assamese.
  • Hangul: Used by 80 million people. It is the alphabet for Korean.

What do we write about?

When I speak to people around me, the question; “what do you write about?”, often follows right after. Which is honestly not always an easy and straightforward answer when you’re into the passion for a while. Now that I have imbedded the passion into my life so deeply, it comes back in all sorts of parts of my life. I write down simple quick notes for work from meetings, to-do lists to maintain the household, thoughts that arise on my commute, stories that I imagine while I’m bored, a simple journal of my daily life. So I could go on and on about what exactly I write. To me the love for writing doesn’t necessarily come with what I write, but how I feel right after.

The Result

After a session of writing, no matter how long or short, my mind feels calmer, one moment more than the other of course, we are all having more and more stressful lives where society seems to demand us to be perfect at all times. Where social media seems to be there to share the nice and beautiful moments of your life, nowadays it almost seems like a competition of who has that best life imaginable. Hence why I am trying to just be myself while I am online, I try to share the good and the bad, my passions and my worries. I do not want someone to look at my life and think it is better then their own. I would love to be the inspiration for someone to become the best version of themselves while truly believing they can be themselves including the passions they desire to have in their life.

Where writing plays a part in this is mostly within the reflection of what I do. Journaling is my way to get a better understanding of what happened and what I want to happen in the future. Where I used to overthink the smallest imaginable events, I now write down my thoughts, which makes it significantly easier to reflect on them. Imagine a house that is entirely filled with all the things you love, but they are buried underneath the paperwork you took home with you from work. The interior you’ve been working on for years, which in this example represent your own thoughts, is covered in worries and tasks that are most likely already overdue. When you put everything in it’s own place, it becomes significantly easier to perform well, enjoy your passions and relax. Your mind works the same, when your thoughts are cleaned up, taken care off and organized, you will feel more confident and relaxed. You’ll feel like you can handle it all much easier than you were expecting before you wrote it down.

Will it really help?

Yes it will, but give it some time, like with everything, the most beautiful things take time and effort. Don’t expect to get everything in order after you wrote down your first sentence. Make it a true habit, incorporating it in every aspect of your life. Not in a way that it will work against you but in a way that it will feel like a natural occurrence. It might sound cheesy, but hard work does really pay off in the long term. What I strongly recommend is, to find yourself a person in your life that might have already been able to get this as a true habit, you’d be surprised how many people like to write. Maybe even a pen friend will get into your life, like we used to have back in the day, who knows?

Does the writing instrument matter?

Like we have stated on our homepage “Potentially the famous BIC might write the same words, however they will not carry the same emotional weight as when they have been carefully written down with a fountain pen that is designed to slow down your writing and bring you back to the essence of your thoughts.”

This is something we truly believe in. Yes the pen you took home from work will get the job done. However a pen that you’re proud of, that you genuinely want to carry with you on every moment in your life, will probably write a lot more than the one you’ve just chucked in your bag after a long day of work. The pen you’re proud of, will become part of you. 

The feeling of an extra fine fountain pen nib, the inflow with the colour that suits your personality will genuinely be able to put down your thoughts with a lot more relieve of your feelings. Nevertheless, this hobby shouldn’t break your bank account. There are many options available that will give a great experience in your writing, there is a writing instrument for absolutely everyone and feel free to contact us for a lovely recommendation.

Calligraphy

Why I called this article “The Art of Writing” is because there are so many different ways of handwriting. It develops over time and eventually you might even be interested in making it look even better with beautiful curves and longer lines. Calligraphy does know rules, however those rules are similar to art in paintings, everyone can interpret these rules in their own ways. Calligraphy was/is used for different purposes. While it was previously used to write biblical manuscripts for the Christians. For the Islamic it was used to write about the Qur’an because the traditional islamic art avoided portraying direct human figures. In the modern world it is still used by monks as a meditative, mindful or spiritual exercise. Outside of religion it is mostly used for formal invitations, love letters, art or simply pure passion for the craft.

In Conclusion

We are not even near to be done with speaking about writing, however we don’t want to continuously bore you with our perspective, even though being bored is exactly what we might need a bit more of nowadays. 

We highly recommend you to pick up the pen you have a round you, slowly get the art imbedded into your lifestyle. Later on get yourself a writing instrument that you’re genuinely proud of and enjoy the true form of art that will get you who you desire to become.