Everything
seems to be going digital but yet, I still find myself at times holding onto
what my classmate who sits next to me would call, ‘archaic tools,’ which he
asks to borrow sometimes for in-class activities that require writing. Although
I love the convenience and efficiency that the digital age brings, there is still
something about the good ol’ pen and paper that I am just not willing to
completely give up.
To
all digital book readers, do you remember the smell of a new book’s pages when
you crack it open for the first time, feeling the paper as you turn the pages
(and an occasional paper cut), and using fancy bookmarks with tassels? All of
this is replaced by the swipe of a finger on a screen or a click/scroll of a
mouse.
What
happened to writing with pen and paper before typing that paper up? It seems
like a waste of time but for me, it is not. Writing with a pen and paper is more
intimate whereas, writing a paper on a computer, I feel a sort of disconnect.
The font is not mine, there are no scribbles, it just looks too clean. My ideas
are not clean and organized so why should my thoughts look like they are?
By writing out my ideas and thoughts on paper first, I can clean it up and
organize it later when I am typing it up.
As
I was browsing and reading articles on adage.com, I came across a unique
commercial for a French toilet paper company that uses slice of life humor to
convey the shortcomings of digital.
Do
not get me wrong, I LOVE digital, but I still feel the need to cling onto ‘archaic
tools,’ such as pen and paper, that serve a part of me that cannot be replaced
by digital. Same idea is portrayed in the commercial for the French toilet
paper company, Le Trefle. Digital can win a lot of battles against paper, but
unfortunately not all of them… especially when you are on the toilet!
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