"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
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
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