Chameleon penmanship

Spencerian Penmanship / $20.99 / Amazon.com

“Your handwriting looks exactly like <insert name of friend here>,” my friends would exclaim.

I recently realized that all these years, I’ve been unconsciously channeling the handwriting of other people (usually one of my closest friends). Some may call it a skill, but I got pretty disturbed. How can I not have a handwriting I could call my own?

In Highschool, I did notice I already had a knack of adapting to others’ handwriting, whether it was Angel’s, Melissa’s, etc. Now that I think about it, I derived my signature from a classmate’s who had the same last name — I just changed the initial to that of mine.

And so the quest for my penmanship began, and I decided to go as far back as Gradeschool, when my handwriting was basically consistent year after year. I was one of the few ones who could write in “Paulinian handwriting” — which, apparently, is referred to as “Spencerian penmanship” by the rest of the world.

Amazon had the books, and I have the drive. Spencerian Penmanship is my attempt to bring back that Paulinian in me. Not that I had fond memories during my stay in that school, but it’s what I started with — and maybe it’s what I can end with.

Fifteen minutes a day. Every single day.

Let’s do it.