O h! You're a left-hander!" - this is the common reaction to any left-hander and there has always been curiosity over the different styles a left-hander adopts to write. One turns the paper 90 degrees and writes to the side and another writes with her hand over the top of the paper, bending her wrist, seemingly writing upside down, leaving others wondering how it is possible for someone to write that way.
Today, there are more left-handers in a class than there were before ."I've had people staring at my hand ever since I was a kid. First it felt good to get attention from your peers and the fact that they found you different. It's also funny when they try to copy you and write with their left hand, scrawling unrecognizable alphabets. I used to be the only left-hander in my class. Now there are more," says Akshay, a student.
It is a popular notion that left-handers tend to be more creative than their right handed counter parts. This is because they use the right side of their brain. When a person is Right Brain Dominant, they are thought of as dreamers, artists, and musicians of the world. They have their strength in different areas. They do have similar characteristics and they tend to hold similar occupations. It is not commonly known that the last three US Presidents, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton, were all left-handed. Some of the people in history like Ramses II (Egyptian pharaoh), Alexander the Great, Charlemagne (Roman emperor), Julius Caesar (Roman general), Napoleon Bonaparte (French emperor) were also left handers. Our very own Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar and actress Jyothika are left-handers.
Is it possible that left-handers have a way of carving a niche for themselves in society? Brushing aside the non-availability of left-handed chairs or scissors that make everyday life a little more difficult, maybe life as a left-hander isn't so bad after all. Where else would one be "different" for simply writing with their other hand?
Source: DC
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