Thursday, June 19, 2008

Good to know Flaws of Being Left-handed

I always felt very bad about about my handwriting. I know that I am left-handy but still was not convience that I can't write better. When I start reading about left-handed flaws, I felt very comfortable. I realize that it is not my mistake but the system. In our society we write from left to right. Lefties always struggle writing that way. Its because there hand get congested and their angle of writing also changes because of less space available for the proper movement of hand. For lefties, writing right to left is natural. I initially got so much annoyed that I will have to write left to right all my life even though I am gonna screw my handwriting. But with the time I stop worring about my handwriting and start typing than writing most of the time. It still hurts, but we have to draw a line to our problems.

I was below the class average when I was kid. There was something about reading textbook which I found very hard to focus. My mom use to read textbooks for me. Although, no body had any idea that why I didn't like to study. I was poor in literatures. Didn't like history. I liked maths and physics though. But I do lot of calculation mistakes. I always asked myself that why even after doing most of the calculations correct in my exams, I get low marks. I never noticed that it was my writing problem. I use to miss write certain numbers and that is why get wrong results. I didn't know that and so start getting depressed that I am a poor student. Infact, I lost my confidence many time. I can relate this problem with dyslexia but not sure.

Most of the people are confident only because of their memory itself. I would have enjoyed that part at least. But I got poor memory. I don't know if it relates to my left-hand thing. Science always felt short to answer many questions related to your brain functioning. More so, for left-handed brain functioning. Although it is certain that left-handed uses more of their right-side of mind, the problems we face in our daily life is not explained. You can guess, I am bad with names, details, and numbers.

Still there is something about me which stands me out in the crowd. The few things which I like but not really an expert in are drawing, singing, writing, dancing, playing guitar, and field hockey. I believe that if I get a chance or I put some effort to learn any of these activities from a learnt person, I can be very good at them. Oh, another quality I have is that I am good at following leasons and is very sincere. because I have to spend more time than an average guy in my studies, I always get less time and find it hard to manage other activities. I want to reach to that point where I dont have to worry a lot about my work and then I could spend time on what I really like and enjoy.

It is always surprising that people notice me a lot and always see something in me. But I still feel that I lack few normal skills which drive me crazy most of the time when I am in public.

It is for sure that I am not abnormal but different. I have lot of simpathy for my types (specially when they are kids and not aware about what is so different about them).

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