Verdana Inspiration

Verdana Inspiration

I forgot the exact time when this gorgeous font first appealed to me that much, inspiring any kind of writing on my laptop. It sounds a little bit farcical, anyway. The story could date back to my childhood when a kind of superstitious prediction was happily conducted in which I, if I remember it clearly, picked out a pen first without hesitation. That is to say, according to the relatives, this little boy would be more likely to take up something concerning writing in the future. That is quite interesting actually, if you do not take it seriously enough but only regard it as a household activity. How magic! A child that could fit your pocket was blessed to be a writer! The fact is, I did apt much more when it came to writing work. It could be described as one of my first “What do you want to do in the future boy?””I want to be a scientist!”  declarations, to be a writer. Things proceeded smoothly both in the kid’s heart and in the reality. Always one of the best ones in terms of writing is all that I want to use to compliment the kid, stopping right here. Pick up a pen, and write. That’s it.

When English became a part of our life, English writing seemed to appeal to me as well. This time I would share a story of my best friend in my junior high school. The guy was mature and excellent at that time, especially genius with respect to Chinese writing. Once he wrote a drama in an English composition assignment, which turned out to be the objective of our English teacher’s sarcasm, “Here it is not your stage to show creativity.” It could be one of the most fortunate things on this planet that my friend is quite a mature guy with excellent psychological quality to let out the words from his right ear as soon as it flew into his left one and continued to create his 8^th collected literature works’ book by himself, after reading several books about elementary education and principles to communicate with people. It could not be more plausible, as far as most teachers there were concerned, that you could not find the term “creativity” in their dictionaries, whether it was active or passive intent. When my mentor Qizhong asked the whole group if we were told to write fictions or something before the argument essay period, I don’t know how to answer, actually. Some of us wrote pieces on our own, earlier than you could imagine I guess. How promising and tragic. Clever guys knew how to focus all our time and efforts on what we needed and what they needed. They had such kind of incredible abilities to be adamant enough to judge your needs for your whole life.

Another story is about myself when I was in senior high school. Once among our countless trial examinations before the final entrance exam, my English teacher wanted to have a talk with me, with my English paper. She pointed at my English composition and said, “There are so many big words in your composition and it made the marker quite confused. Your score is OK, as you see here, just because that the marker opened the seal of your name and found that you are a student of the best class in our grade. “ I have nothing more than a ludicrous farce to describe this experience. In that 150 words, you behave yourself and put yourself exactly at the peak point of the normal curve, then you win the battle.

Sarcasm ought to be stopped far prior here, for it is trivial and tedious enough to be left alone. Several days ago I received my mother’s question about English grammar which appeared when she was helping my younger bro with his junior two study. “What should we call XX in the sentence YY?” Oh for God’s sake, I could not make it sure at all because I won’t say English grammar X or Y here. It was irresponsible to guess the XY issue and mislead my mum, so I just suggested that she refer to one of the thick grammar books and get the point accurately. We are always in different stages and observe the others with curiosity and reflections. It is refreshing and beyond description now to see my little bro dealing with the issues I used to be with. Anyway, the truth that needs no proof is that wherever you are, since you can not change the situation, you’d better adapt to it as soon as possible. That is how people survive.

Several weeks ago I finished my paragraph during the class, while our Famous Person just picked up his pen. He was shocked entirely and uttered unbearable compliments for me. I felt extremely honored and meanwhile, I pondered why I often did things like that. Was I interested in “Will You Use Internet For Romance?”? Not at all. The fact is that something just reached there faster than 3*10^5km/s and I picked up my pen and wrote down the whole thing. Although I am not accustomed to spending “a ridiculously long time” on just sitting there and doing nothing during an exam like Qizhong, I would spare a period of time reading the instructions of the essay several times and meditating, while observing others casually to find that they are busy doing something. When I close my eyes and cross my fingers, it is as if a dialogue with my own God or maybe not that abstract as you wish. When things come, as I mentioned, writing takes no time at all. It is nothing but a display of inspiration in my mind. Pick up a pen, and write down. When it comes to free writing like blogs or fictions, things are even simpler. Inspiration and creativity flows freely and comes up with fruitful results. Characters are exactly where it reaches. Of course I am not being flippant with respect to principles and regulations. However, compared with precious inspiration, they should not be the things that count most. Human beings progress and creations never originate from the repetition of routines and conventions.

So again, another several pages’ bullshit. How interesting. Verdana triggers no tedium.