Happy International Left handers day 2018
As a kid I hated being left handed. I hated that it was something that made me a little different from most, I hated the scissor problem, I hated the pen smudge, the fact my hand writing is a mess (which meant constant complaints from my teachers to “improve my handwriting” ) in part because when I was little i was probably trying to mirror how my right handed reception year teacher was holding her pen without being actually taught the reverse meaning I have never held a pen correctly in my life. I hated also how (even though I’ve read its genetics that causes left handedness, something I’m skeptical to believe) I am the only left hander out my entire family.
But now I find it something to embrace about me. It is something that makes me different from 9/10 people who are right handed. I like that being left handed is something that seems to never fail to fascinate right handed people.I like that its associated with witchcraft. I like that its like a secret club that only certain people in society can be a member of. Most of my favourite famous people are left handed : Jennifer Lawrence, Rochelle from The Saturdays, Nadine from Girls Aloud, Julia Sawalha, Jennifer Saunders, Lady Gaga, Prince William, Tom Cruise, Scarlett Johansson (and her character therefor of Black Widow).
And my favourite left hander of them all, Lisa Kudrow and her character of Phoebe Buffay (confirmed in one episode of Friends where Phoebe says she has to “go and ask my mum a left handed cooking question”.
Yeah, we may die on average 9 years earlier but we have more interesting lives when we are alive.
