1000 DAYS OF STEEM — The Diary Game - 19/09/2021 - Ancient distant passions...

Today's post I want to focus on old memories, forcefully returned to the limelight thanks to this old typewriter, which a dear relative gave us, will be about forty years old, more or less the age when I stopped studying typing...

In those days it was a subject that had a fair amount of importance, knowing how to type gave that sense of further knowledge that could be useful, in the subsequent insertion into the world of work, my parents, of peasant origin but quite receptive towards the world that it was evolving, I enrolled in 1st grade in an evening typing course, I remember the pages and pages I spent typing "as-as-as-as" and so on. etc. ...

That sheet of A4 paper, placed on the typewriter in such a way as not to allow viewing of the keys below, engaged the mind in the effort of memorizing their correct positioning, I must say that after a long time, also thanks to a constant typing temporal, has always allowed me to keep a good writing skills, a fact that comes in handy precisely for staying on blogging sites ...

I have always liked typing, as well as all expressions of speed, so I constantly trained to increase the number of words I could type in tests that usually lasted about ten minutes, I don't remember how far I got there, but in the evening course that I attended I was one of the fastest, especially in relation to the very low number of errors I made...

They also gave me a typewriter similar to the one you see in the photographs, bright red, also from the Olivetti brand, at the time it was an institution, an Italian brand, prestigious, I'm only sorry that, during the dissolution of a company, I made the mistake of giving it to my ex-partner, but it was a particular moment in my life, in which I had my head everywhere except in that typewriter, after some time I would have liked to have it still with me, this one I did not I'm sorry at all, but you, my "Red Head" (I had renamed it that way), I no longer have it, by the way, I also learned that even the person to whom it does not have it anymore yielded, I would have gladly taken it back, I knew perfectly well that it was wasted in his hands...

I’m part of the @Italygame Team together with @mikitaly, @sardrt, @ilnegro and @girolamomarotta

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Today's post I want to focus on old memories, forcefully returned to the limelight thanks to this old typewriter, which a dear relative gave us, will be about forty years old, more or less the age when I stopped studying typing...

In those days it was a subject that had a fair amount of importance, knowing how to type gave that sense of further knowledge that could be useful, in the subsequent insertion into the world of work, my parents, of peasant origin but quite receptive towards the world that it was evolving, I enrolled in 1st grade in an evening typing course, I remember the pages and pages I spent typing "as-as-as-as" and so on. etc....

Quel foglio di carta A4, messo sulla macchina da scrivere in modo tale da non consentire la visione dei tasti sottostanti, impegnava la mente nello sforzo di memorizzazione del loro corretto posizionamento, devo dire che a distanza di tanto tempo, complice anche una costanza di digitazione temporale, mi ha sempre consentito di tenere una buona capacità di scrittura, fatto che ritorna utile proprio per la permanenza nei siti di blogging...

Scrivere a macchina mi è sempre piaciuto, così come tutte le espressioni di velocità, per cui mi allenavo costantemente per aumentare il numero di parole che riuscivo a digitare in prove che solitamente duravano una decina di minuti, non ricordo bene a quanto arrivai, ma nel corso serale che frequentavo ero uno dei più celeri, in relazione soprattutto al numero di errori molto basso che facevo...

Mi regalarono anche una macchina da scrivere simile a questa che vedete nelle fotografie, di colore rosso acceso, sempre di marca Olivetti, all'epoca era un'istituzione, marchio italiano, prestigioso, mi dispiace solamente che, durante lo scioglimento di una società, feci l'errore di cederla al mio ex-socio, ma era un momento particolare della mia vita, in cui avevo la testa dappertutto tranne che in quella macchina di scrivere, a distanza di tempo mi sarebbe piaciuto averla ancora con me, questa non mi dispiace affatto, ma lei, la mia "Testa Rossa" (l'avevo ribattezzata così), non ce l'ho più, tra l'altro, ho pure saputo che non ce l'ha più nemmeno la persona a cui l'ho ceduta, l'avrei volentieri ripresa indietro, sapevo perfettamente che era sprecata nelle sue mani...

Vi ricordo che io, @mad-runner, sono uno dei 5 componenti della squadra @ItalyGame, composta dal sottoscritto, @sardrt, @girolamomarotta, @ilnegro e @mikitaly.

Tutte le foto sono di mia proprietà, scattate con il mio telefono