One bad habit that we pick up when we leave away the good old lead point pencil and take up writing with a pen or a ball pen is that we stop stressing on the dots. Since ink flows freely from the nib of the pen there is no real need to stress that dot on top of the letter i. Just a touch of grace can bring the required result to paper. Its not the same case with lead point pencils where we really have to make sure that the point is pressed hard against the surface of the paper in order to deliver the much required dot.
Many people do not like dots on their career pathways Dots can have a bad connotation in the minds of many and thus it is good riddance for those kind of people. They want to live away from this menace as much as possible and just make a passing mark whenever they encounter dots.
But I am concerned with the habit of stressing, more than the value of dots, per say. As a child who writes with a pencil we often like to stress on points. We do spend a greater part of our childhood stressing on the different facets of our limited world. No wonder whatever we learn at that age is said to have been imprinted on our minds for the rest of our lives. But as we grow older we tend to spend more time on issues of practicality than mere thought. So practicality demands that we do not waste time on pressing the nib hard against the surface to make a dot rather a passing flick should do. Practicality also demands that we only stress points that catch the eye. It requires us to be outwardly smart and ignorant of our inner self. It wants to make us show pieces that have been decorated just right for the observing eye.
Every weekend I spend almost half an hour reading the DAWN Advertiser. I am not in a search of a job. Nor do I plan to marry a young, 5'11'', sunni, smart, American national, well to do rajput girl who often puts up her advertisement in the paper. I don't even have money to buy a refurnished Japanese car and I certainly do not have the means to buy that house in DHA with 5 beedrooms, D/D, American styled washrooms, Spanish kitchen, Italian lawn, Swedish doorknobs but with Pakistani security. Its more of a leisure trip through the developed part of our country that I take in the convenience of my study chair. But through and through all I see is pretension. All jobs require excellent english speaking skills, secretaries should preferably be females although all companies claim to believe in gender equality, education must be preferably from an international university, you should be able to convince (read fool) customers and most importantly you should send a picture along with your CV. If you are a hopeful customer for a girl you must be sincere (read act sincere in front of the family). You have to be serious too because her family will entertain serious enquiries only! What a load of crap!
There are others who completely let go of their habit of putting dots where needed. Their writing is just one long scratch of pen on the paper from beginning to end without very many breaks.
I have known a doctor in my school years whose writing was considered most illegible in the whole lot. I have had a chance to work close to him and monitor his pen flicks at patient charts. Tells you a lot about a person. Anyways to decipher his writing it used to take four to five people working together on his physician orders. He was a quickie, always ready to move ahead. Appointments with him were like watching a movie in fast forward mode.
Many people do not like dots on their career pathways Dots can have a bad connotation in the minds of many and thus it is good riddance for those kind of people. They want to live away from this menace as much as possible and just make a passing mark whenever they encounter dots.
But I am concerned with the habit of stressing, more than the value of dots, per say. As a child who writes with a pencil we often like to stress on points. We do spend a greater part of our childhood stressing on the different facets of our limited world. No wonder whatever we learn at that age is said to have been imprinted on our minds for the rest of our lives. But as we grow older we tend to spend more time on issues of practicality than mere thought. So practicality demands that we do not waste time on pressing the nib hard against the surface to make a dot rather a passing flick should do. Practicality also demands that we only stress points that catch the eye. It requires us to be outwardly smart and ignorant of our inner self. It wants to make us show pieces that have been decorated just right for the observing eye.
Every weekend I spend almost half an hour reading the DAWN Advertiser. I am not in a search of a job. Nor do I plan to marry a young, 5'11'', sunni, smart, American national, well to do rajput girl who often puts up her advertisement in the paper. I don't even have money to buy a refurnished Japanese car and I certainly do not have the means to buy that house in DHA with 5 beedrooms, D/D, American styled washrooms, Spanish kitchen, Italian lawn, Swedish doorknobs but with Pakistani security. Its more of a leisure trip through the developed part of our country that I take in the convenience of my study chair. But through and through all I see is pretension. All jobs require excellent english speaking skills, secretaries should preferably be females although all companies claim to believe in gender equality, education must be preferably from an international university, you should be able to convince (read fool) customers and most importantly you should send a picture along with your CV. If you are a hopeful customer for a girl you must be sincere (read act sincere in front of the family). You have to be serious too because her family will entertain serious enquiries only! What a load of crap!
There are others who completely let go of their habit of putting dots where needed. Their writing is just one long scratch of pen on the paper from beginning to end without very many breaks.
I have known a doctor in my school years whose writing was considered most illegible in the whole lot. I have had a chance to work close to him and monitor his pen flicks at patient charts. Tells you a lot about a person. Anyways to decipher his writing it used to take four to five people working together on his physician orders. He was a quickie, always ready to move ahead. Appointments with him were like watching a movie in fast forward mode.
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