What Your Handwriting Tells About You

One of the most useful skills is handwriting.  When a person learns to write he can simply and easily put his thoughts on paper for others to read.  Handwriting plays a vital part in communication, and is one of the most important ways of keeping ideas ready for use.  People can forget.  But handwriting helps them remember.  They can use pen or pencil to mark down letters, numbers, and other signs.  People can move to another town, city, or country, but handwriting lets them “talk” to one another.  The art and practice of attractive handwriting is called penmanship, or calligraphy

Here are some interesting details of what your handwriting reveals, if your penmanship is:

• Small – you are somebody who is deeply focused in what you do. However you often would like to be alone for retrospection.
• Slants to the Left – writing this way is pretty rare and technically difficult thus it shows that you are not totally free in expressing your feelings.  When you get involve with someone it requires him/her to draw your thoughts out of you.
• Slants to the Right – you are a very transparent person with no reservation at all. It does not mean you are perfect but it shows the real you. You would not pretend as anyone else and show how you exactly feel most of the time.
• Oversized – you love talking a lot and has a tendency to become attention seeker.
• Uses Heavy Pressure – you have an uncontrolled temper but passion in love and life compliments it.
• Straight Up and Down – you like to be in control of the situation and see everything logically.

Aside from what your handwriting reveals, it also has other important uses.  Students use handwriting to record and organize ideas they hear in lectures and classrooms.  They use their notes for study and discussion.  Club secretaries usually write down important happenings at meetings.  In school, students often write reports and tests by hand.  Business executives, doctors, teachers, and many other adults keep records and make notes by hand.  They may have these ideas typewritten or computerized but it is still a necessary skill for everyone.  When people write letters, they may want to write about their own ideas and feelings, or about their friends and families.

Some people believe that typewriters, computers, and printing presses have made handwriting more important maybe because they realized that just being able to write is not enough.  A person must also write legibly, so the words can be read.  Handwriting that no one can read is useless and can create serious problems.  For example, a student may write the correct answer to a question on a test.  But if the teacher cannot read the answer, it may be marked wrong.  An unclearly written check may result in serious financial loss.  If a clerk writes a sales ticket so that the person delivering the package cannot read the ticket, it may delay the delivery and produce an unsatisfied customer.

In middle-ages, monks in monasteries produced beautiful books written entirely by hand.  They decorated the pages with fancy letters, borders, and pictures.  Many museums treasure these books as masterpieces of writing.  The monks often used a kind of writing called Gothic or black-letter. Later, the term penmanship dropped out of common usage because it carried the outdated idea of writing as an exercise in beauty for its own sake.