Left Is Right

"Oh you are lefty!!" So many times I hear this exclamation from people with awestruck expressions, and then leave them silent or even more awestruck with some remark or a whole description :p

So yeah, the funny thing is that they seem awed, and even funnier is when very urban, educated and self proclaimed modern people seem so. They might be envious I guess :p. I mean seriously, if you have such exposure of the world, it's obvious you'll come across like one or two people in ten who are left handed. Then why exclaim and make yourself look like a paindu :D

Now coming to what are they actually thinking. The other day a patient came and said: "Dr. sahiba, aap ultay hath se likhtey hain, mera beta ultay hath se likhta hai aur main usko dant-ti hun, ab aap ko dekh k mai usay mana nahi karun gi". I was like wow. I started scolding her, telling her of its importance, the famous people over the world who have been lefties, and that it's totally normal for her son to use his left hand, unless he doesn't use it for eating.

One time a colleague was impressed with my handwriting despite my lefthandedness. She was actually concerned about her four year old lefty daughter who happens to sort of rotate her hand while writing; she was relieved to know that a better option is actually turning the paper/copy instead of your hand :/ :p

Many people think of it as a taboo or something, that is nothing more than just believing in old school myths.

If you make use of a little awareness and some gray matter, you get to know that left handed people are actually right brained. The right side of their brain being dominant, they are creative, original, intuitive, thoughtful, subjective. They are better at recognizing faces, expressing and reading emotions, music, color, images. Well, that is the best to like about us. (I like all this in me!). Click here if you wanna know more about lefties.

The most interesting thing about all this is the fact that it is something to be proud of, as God prefers our right heads to be dominant instead of right hands which is quite an honour and hence we are few of the chosen ones. And, left-handers are the only ones in their right minds :P. Cheerio

Lucid Intervals

I don't even know where to begin. This is gonna be quite a philosophical post, that I know.

The first step in the process of 'making it big' is not having faith in yourself and belief in your Lord but to actually think of yourself the most supreme with no regard for anyone who comes your way and voila! Well, hah! Loser alert. There's actually a word for such personalities- narcissists.

Well, I am not to talk about narcissists right now, I am gonna include each and everyone of us here. The intelligent intellectual geniuses, successful smart know-it-alls, serious hardworkers, non serious lazy bums, happy go luckys, widely experienced mature wise owls, mediocres, losers, failures, lame joke crackers, super witty ones, sensible enlightening souls, friendly warm ones, freaks, embittered pessimists, extraverts, the genuine ones, drama queens, introverts, realist and optimists, of course narcissists, and all the normal people; all of them having one thing common in each and every one of them- an element of insanity, madness, craziness.

However small(or big) it may be, it varies widely in limit, and may be even dormant or active, but IT IS ALWAYS THERE. Because being too much normal (or perfect) is not normal. As of course, ideal is theoretical only.

Sometimes, and for some, this craziness is also quite a big reason for them being what they are or where they stand or what they have achieved. It is this crazy passion for example, that makes them take the extra step, walk an extra mile to be extraordinary.

There is another aspect of this madness- being a little more sensitive than many, a tad bit more aggressive than all, weirder than others in terms of being social, being more quarrelsome, loving with much intensity as compared to many more(read being too possessive), talking or making jokes more or less than others, doing/ having/experiencing too much or too little of anything in life-being on the extremes of spectrum.

Here comes 'understanding' the other person, and not being too judgmental on our part. If a person is short tempered, persistently cranky, silent, awkward, funny, dull, rude, bullying, serious etc there must be some reason behind it. Maybe its part of their habits, nature, genes or certain circumstances that make them (or has made them)the way they are. They might not have had the exposure and experiences vast enough to make them learn how not to be affected by negative external factors. (Hence, the key has to be "BALANCE" nonetheless; however, the so-called normals might NOT be balanced).

Our motive should be  to identify and understand people, and not assume, judge, jump to conclusions, or make snap decisions in this regard. That way you (who claim to be very 'normal') wont be feeling too sensitive or yourself turning all emo and making mountains of molehills if you have an awkward encounter or happen to come across people on the extremes when they are at behaving at their extremest. That might help them feel normal like you too(and ultimately can help decrease the number of people in asylums as well! :o ). Big or small, the element of craziness is found in each and every homo sapien on the face of this world. Everyone has a dark/mysterious/strange/awkward/obnoxious/creepy/evil/sick/weird/ridiculous side and THAT IS normal(though it should be minimum eee).

So, are we normal people with some craziness or are we crazy people with some normalcy(lucid intervals). Or is it one and the same?

I hypothesize :p, it is these lucid intervals in between all our mad mayhem, that make us the big or small achievers that we are -so these definitely need to be prolonged and frequent, while maintaining the equilibrium simultaneously!!! :D

The Awkward Moments.....

The awkward moment when at the OPD there are so many patients, fighting amongst themselves for their turn, and you instead of shouting at them, seat yourself comfortably to enjoy the show and smile :P

The awkward moment when the patient and attendant are easily conversing in Sindhi in front of you between them and have no idea that you are actually getting it all :/

The awkward moment(and this is the funniest) when you see a house officer *holding and showing her hair strands* to ask a patient if her fecal color is black like it :O (and still doesn't realize even when the colleagues around start giggling)!