Steve’s Student Blog

Be Better Than Pre-School

A friend of mine recently sent me a letter (It began “Hey Mate, working for botox london is wicked, I get loads of free time at work to write letters like this…). I shall repeat that, for all those who rarely hear the word “letter”: a friend of mine recently sent me a letter. Yes, written by my friend’s own fair hands. A real letter, with real love and attention to detail.

Being in London, I don’t have time to write letters. I just don’t. That’s not me being a letter snob, that’s just life here in The Big Smoke. So anyway, this letter got me thinking: I wonder if I could write something as beautiful as this?

The short answer is–I couldn’t. And my friend is one of those annoying people with a real flair for hand-writing anyway, so the competition was stiff to say the least–

As I said, my first attempt was terrible. I hadn’t written a bone-fide letter for many years, so I was rusty and barely knew how to hold a pen. It got much more complicated than that, though. When I got to a letter G I started to doubt myself about how it was written–I even had to look at my friend’s to make sure I hadn’t spelt it the wrong way around!

So my point is this: don’t get yourself in to an illegible state like me. Combat it, because you might have children one day (if you can find a woman who doesn’t mind that you have the hand-writing skills of a clumsy pre-schooler), and you might need to pass this ancient tradition on.