My mom learned how to text in cursive and I can't stop thinking about it
She got an iPhone three weeks ago and switched from her old phone finally. My sisters and I had been begging her for years and she always said it was good enough. So now she texts sort of. She uses the swipe keyboard thing but somewhere along the way she figured out you could make the text look fancy in messages and now everything she sends me is in this weird italic cursive font. Good morning sweetheart but slanted or like did you eat in script. Birthday messages that look like they're written on a wedding invitation.
I was making coffee yesterday morning and one came through saying: just thinking of you in cursive. I stood there in my kitchen for a minute holding the mug because I realized she's doing it on purpose. She figured out the format menu by herself. Nobody showed her. She sat with a phone she didn't understand and she found the thing that lets her sign her texts the way she used to sign my birthday cards when I was little. I was playing on my phone last night and another one came through. Sleep well i love you in cursive of course. then the realization hit me all at once that she is 71 and she taught herself a new style alphabet at 71 just so the messages she sends her kids would feel a little more like her. I don't know its not like I'm not crying. I'm at work but if this is something other people's parents do can you tell me. I feel like I want to know I'm not the only one who got reduced to nothing by a font choice.