I am not left handed, but my
wife is. There is a distinct difference
in the way we perceive things, the way we manipulate objects and even the way
we interact with the world around us.
The world is right handed,
and I often feel sorry that my wife has to move through a society that is unsympathetic
and alien to her natural inclinations.
I could make a list; but it
is better expressed by Salman Rushdie in Luka
and the Fire of Life.
Door knobs turn the wrong way. Screws insist on being turned clockwise,
guitars were strung upside down, and the scripts in which most languages were
written ran awkwardly from left to right…
Potter wheels wheeled perversely, dervishes would have whirled better if
they whirled in the opposite direction, and how much finer and more sensible
the whole world would be, Luka thought, if the sun rose in the west and set in
the east.
Seeing things in reverse to
accepted norms is a special gift that results in innovation. Some of our most brilliant people, and I
include my wife, were and are left handed.
the Ol’Buzzard
Yes, left-handedness often comes with great creativity, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteYounger brother is a leftie - 55 years old and in a nursing home because of wet brain - aka vodka.
ReplyDeleteDebra,
Now for a wield one - air traffic controller assistants sit to the right of the actual controller at the scope and have to train themselves to write with their left hand - You adapt...
Sarge
Whenever I see that a person is left-handed, I am intrigued and want to get to know them.
ReplyDeleteHendrix was a left handed guitarist, he just learned to play it upside down. I have tried to educate my left hand...I wish I was ambidextrous. I have an old friend who had a great career designing perfume bottles. He is quite the showman, he would do presentations and draw his designs, first the right side then flamboyantly flip the pen to his left hand and finish the other side. I can write with my left hand, but it looks like the penmanship of another person.
ReplyDeleteOB,
ReplyDeleteI am at www.oneangryzebra.blogspot.com
or msgtron@aol.com - email.
Ron
As Mr. Burns of the Simpson's said:
ReplyDelete“Damned infernal gizmo. My kingdom for a left-handed can opener.”