Crayons

I don't know when I stopped using crayons. To be fair, I never used them a ton in the first place. I was more a colored pencil guy. 

But it's an interesting thought.

When and why do we abandon our crayons for our erasable pencils?

Is it because our elementary school teacher told us to?

I think it has to do with permanence. Crayons are almost impossible to erase. Ask any parent who's child drew over the walls when they were little. 

I think as we got older, we were more aware of what we made and we were aware that we made mistakes constantly. So instead of risking having something be eternally wrong, we use a pencil and then suddenly we can erase our mistakes.

Pencils are also much more precise than crayons are. When we were younger it was all about the main idea. The broader the idea, the more it can mean.  As we grow older, more precision is demanded of us and thus more of a need for pencils and less for crayons.

It's important to forget about precision every once in a while and just express our creativity without a fear of being wrong. I think that's why these blogs are so nice.