Signing and the Meaning Within

I was taught at a young age, to make my signature one that's beautiful and tough to copy. It was something that would be used to identify me from others.

Signatures are supposed to be sacred. You sign them on your wedding certificate. You sign them on payment slips and cheques as authorisation. You sign them on your passport to identify yourself. It is unique.

In the O3 environment, signatures are well used in many ways. "Promise you never do this again XXX. Sign it." Sounds meaningful? Not when the circumstances in the O3 environment are peppered with "signed" and forced promises written on pieces of scrap paper that are likely to be lost and forgotten. The sacred signature loses its treasured meaning here...thus i usually just scrawl a curvy line.

Which of course leads to another topic - promises and their meaning. But that's another story for another day.