My Writing Experience

     Writing, to me, is a therapeutic practice. I enjoy feeling the gentle glide of a pen or pencil in between the tips of my fingers. This is a calming sensation that we don't often get experience in the present age of technology where most of our writing is done on computers.
     Although computers are quicker for writing; I greatly prefer writing by hand than on a computer. Writing on a computer is loud due to the constant clicking of the keys. The bright screen shining at you takes away the organic feel that comes with using a pen and paper. Lastly, there is very little personality in the aesthetic computer written pieces compared to that of ones own unique handwriting scrawled across the page giving the words personality. Unfortunately, Helen Keller was never able to experience handwriting and was confined to using a typewriter which came with its own positive and negative traits. Helen Keller was never able to feel the glide of a pen or pencil on paper. However, I would like to think that her therapy would come from the sensation of the keys vibrating in the machine as she pounds down the key of each letter against the paper. On the other hand, Helen Keller gets to experience the same joyful silence that comes with handwriting despite the fact that she uses a typewriter. In this way, I can relate to the joy she feels while writing.
     Ultimately, it still saddens me that she could never see her own words and ideas written out in her own unique printing. The sight of a completed page of writing is comparable to that of an artist proudly admiring their finished painting. This experience, I am lucky to have, is something Helen Keller can never truly have but merely imagine.