There is a naughty, adrenaline pumping feeling that gets created when you read a piece of handwritten information you are not supposed to read. This sense is similar to watching a person who does not know you are watching them. The mystery in what they are going to do next in a completely natural setting is the most fascinating human observation. Notes work the same way.
I remember in 6th grade I secretly picked up a note dropped by Morgan Watkins for Anne Marie (I can’t remember how to spell her last name) and instantly felt giddy. I kept it hidden in my backpack because I was certain it was going to have top secret information that was going to create a rumor mill all across the Blue team. When I was safely back at my house I opened the note and it said, “is your mom driving us to the mall later?” I was disappointed.
This little anecdote speaks volumes in the nature of hand written notes. When someone goes to the trouble to write a note down on a piece of paper, you deem this info at important or personal. People like knowing intimate information about other people. Deep down it makes you feel like more of a person knowing how other people carry out business that is for their eyes only.
My dad keeps a non-secretive TCB (taking care of business) list that I will glance at to see what he prioritizes as work to get done. He hand writes it and it gives me insight into his life. It helps me understand the way he ticks. When you can gain insight into what another person feels is meaningful information, you can use this knowledge to make yourself feel appreciated by giving this person what they are looking for. One of the main purposes of life is to feel appreciated.
It should also be noted that handwritten notes can be used as a means of creating false info to throw snoops off. There is nothing worse than a snoop because it shows distrust. Notice the disconnect between this post. On one hand I say to look at handwritten messages to gain info to gain a closer knowledge base about the person and on the other I say there is nothing worse than a snoop. I wish I could say that this post had this conclusion in mind when I started but I only arrived at it by accident. /post.
So my post about keeping a personal, handwritten journal, is garbage, while this post glorifies the intrigue and uniqueness of the exact same idea.
I suppose you could read it that way. I remembering writing that your post sucked and not that the idea sucked. I’m also not sure that the two posts have direct correlation where this is the idea of reading something private verse you writing something private. I do try to comment on comments though so that’s what I’d write to yours.
Just as an outreach from this post, people love reading comments more than they like reading posts. The blog would be better if the post was just a few lines and then the rest of it were only comments. I guarantee more people would read them.
Agree about the comments. Gourlay has been putting in a lot of effort to leave a degrading comment on every one of my posts. I’ll have to check if each individual post is getting more views because people are clicking on the comments.
Gourlay is trying to stay relevant after he fizzled out of his blogging career.
I think the fascination behind the comment is a similar idea that the people who are commenting are not supposed to be commenting. An author is a requirement to the creation of a post but no one is required to leave a comment. When someone does it’s like, “ohhhh, someone left a comment.”
The only reason I read this article is because I saw the four comments.