Left Right Hands

We live in a world which is dominated by right handers. Do you realise that many products are designed for right handers? e.g. can opener, scissors, guitar, sharpener, bowling ball and bowling shoes etc. It is difficult to cut paper following a line with your left hand using a normal scissors. I find this lefties FAQ site quite interesting.

People who know me know that I am a left hander. My hand always 'fight' with the guy sitting on my left when eating. But actually I am not a pure left hander. Except for writing, drawing, painting and eating, I use right hand to do most of the stuff as others do. I use scissors, mouse, open door, hold racket, play bowling using my right hand.

Normally lefties only use left hand to do most of the things, I am not really sure why I am different. I thought about this and figured out that I feel more comfortable using my left hand for things that require a bit of skill with fingers. For the rest that doesn't require much skill, I can adapt to the right-handed world easily.

Many cultures including Chinese consider using left hand something bad and a lot of parents would force their children to use their right hands. Actually left handers simply have a more dominant right brain, which means that they might be more creative. I always think it is not right to force kids to use their right hands. If they prefer to write or draw with their left hands, that means they are more comfortable using the left hands and the results could be better. Jimmy Connors, Martina Navratilova might not win a Grand Slam if they were forced to use right hand to play tennis when small; the same for Yang Yang and Zhao Jian Hua in badminton.

Do you know Leonardo Da Vinci is also a left hander? For those of you who only know him from 'Da Vinci Code' or the painter of 'Monalisa', he is also an architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician, musician and scientist.