I love bathroom wall vandalism. I love reading peoples conversations, I love the fact that people actually write stuff while they’re in the bathroom, I love the witty comments and then the stupid responses. I love it the same way I love reading the comments on youtube. People feel safer with being anonymous, so they feel like they can write whatever they want. There is no one to argue with face to face, no confrontation of beliefs, just a faceless world to express yourself too. I like it just the same as the way I like most comments on most websites, but more because I have a crazy fascination with handwriting.

I miss handing in papers for school that are handwritten. While I love my computer and I love typing, (I actually do, I think the sounds of typing are beautiful, it sounds like rain to me. And I can probably type faster than I can write anyway.) I miss writing everything out by hand. It might be because I also adore my own handwriting. When I was younger I decided to redo my handwriting and force myself to write some letters better and differently. So now I write that way with ease and it’s super pretty, I think. I think peoples handwriting is an expression of who they are. Seeing everything typed out, in the same font, with the same spacing doesn’t seem to be any form of expression to me. Then again, if we take away the handwriting aspect and force everyones writing to look the same, there is much more focus on the content of the writing.

But I’m getting off topic. Handwriting can also change according to mood and situation. I know when I get mad my handwriting gets very messy, or when I’m tired my letters get really tiny. Sure, there are different fonts, but a font doesn’t express as well.

Moving on from handwritings and back to vandalism, I think bathroom stall vandalism is wonderful. I would even go as far as to say that it’s almost an art. Of course I’ve seen the typical “Jenny is a slut” “xoxo Maria wuz here xoxo” but I’ve read song lyrics, I’ve read amazing quotes, I’ve seen drawings. What I appreciate most about this form of “art” is that the people get no recognition. The beautiful things that people put on walls might never be traced back to them, and doesn’t that make it art in it’s truest form? With no self promotion behind it? It’s written purely to get the thought out there, and to me that is art.