Verónica Valadez
"The paper, the pencil and the writing"
I always wondered why a pencil and paper were so valuable. If we think about how many people throughout history have used these two tools to capture feelings, emotions, stories, inventions, statements, slogans, outbursts, death sentences, opinions, decisions, etc.
With the courage in my hands and making use of the virtue that has been granted to me, I do not know if for my ancestors, for the Universe or simply because God wanted it that way, I am addressing you through this space in which I will seek to provide with much affection the best that comes from my heart to deal with various topics, hoping not to fall into unnecessary debates or controversies, just like that ... for the pleasure of sharing my Adventures with all of you.
And about the pencil and the paper, I want to tell you that when I have them in my hands I feel that they are the greatest opportunity to feel free, to see a blank paper, ready to be filled, is one of the greatest emotions that I have felt since I was a child.
They have started to think that whether you write directly on a sheet or on your computer, it is the most sublime act of true manifestation, there are no witnesses if you do not want, or your words can transcend as much as you want.
The simple fact of writing is a whole technique, and whoever did not work on it in due course is difficult to eradicate certain idioms and forms, there is no reason why graphology exists, which allows us to know someone's personality through their writing, It will be because the lines are like the lines of your life.
At some point, while I was a teacher, I realized that many children did not know math facts, but with the help of a good teacher and their due effort, they could improve a lot. Unlike this subject, those boys who had made a bad habit in their writing from an early age, it was very difficult to get them to remove certain hobbies or ways of drawing letters. There were those who, since kindergarten, never told them the correct way to hold a pencil, and they took it with three or even four fingers, even inserting it between the ring finger and the middle finger, which resulted, in many cases, in a untidy and clear handwriting.
The strength of your strokes, the inclination of your letters, their size and the way to capture them speak of you, who you are and how you are feeling while writing a text on paper.
Nothing is good or bad, but it is interesting to know that countless writers have looked for their own ways of writing, such is the case of Umberto Eco, who at some point commented that he alternated the pen and the computer depending on what he was writing: "Some issues require the slowness of handwriting, precisely because the paper resists the speed of thought," he said.
There are those who even say that Carlos Fuentes wrote by type and only with the index finger of one hand; with the other he smoked. García Márquez wondered in his article "how that finger could come out unscathed from the more than 2,000 pages of his novel" Terra Nostra. "Gabo himself used to type with two fingers, a method to which he became accustomed as a journalist. Another writer from journalistic roots, Ernest Hemingway, did it by hand or by machine, but always standing up… (El Cultural, 2015).
Anyway, what if the way, what if the form, what if the content, what if the spelling or writing, all this is immersed in the world of letters, and what to say about the greatest emotions that are cheeky before a paper and a pencil: passions, follies, sorrows and joys, everything can be captured.
That is why I want to invite you in this first participation to not stop manifesting, writing as physical exercise, is a good way to exercise our thinking, organize our ideas and create unimaginable worlds with just two tools that do not have great value economic, but they are an excellent opportunity to transform something in you that can have transcendence in your close environment or even in the whole world.
"Words are all we have"
Samuel Beckett
