From+A+Leftys+Point+of+View

=A Lefty's Story ﻿ =  When you’re born, you’re born with either a right or left handed proficiency, though in rare cases you can be born with proficiency in both hands. Though, believe it or not, the hand your born proficient with does a lot more then just change what hand you use primarily, it has a lot of underling consequences. As most people know, right-handedness is the most common out of the whole entire world population and therefore most things created are made with righties in mind. The same can be said about people’s attitude towards different handed people.

 Now, I am one of the luckier left-handed people in the world. I was lucky enough to be born in a place where people didn’t force you to use your right hand, and I was lucky enough to be born in a time where being left-handed was nothing problematic for most of the world. Truthfully, the only major problem I have with being left-handed is finding tools I can use without too much discomfort or issues. However, there are some people out there who are not as lucky as me. In different parts of the world, you’re forced to use your right hand even if your born left-handed, and often in writing, being left-handed can cause a lot of smearing if you write in a left to right script. Not to mention the fact that depending on the teacher you get when your little, you may be “Forced” to use your right hand when doing school work. In different cultures it’s even considered improper to eat with your left hand.

 Location is not the only thing that plays upon being left-handed, but time does too. If you look back in many different languages, like Latin, Hebrew, Chinese, and Korean, the origin of the word left, is often linked with an evil meaning or improper meaning. Right, being the opposite of left, often stands for proper or some other good meaning in these same languages.

 And yet in all irony, being left-handed had many positive attributes. In sports, being left handed can often lead to victory, because most people are used to fighting against right-handed opponents while barely anyone fights against a left-handed opponent and not many people have knowledge of the movement differences. It’s also been scientifically proven that left-handers have many minuet differences in thought processes and sped compared to their right-handed counterparts.

 Overall, I am lucky because I was born in a time and place where being left-handed is not frowned upon. But compared to right-handed people, I am still less lucky. They don’t have to scrounge for that only left-handed desk, nor to they need to worry about if that computer mouse they wanted is available for lefties. In all truth, I may have it better then other left-handed people, but I still have it worse then many right-handed people, in daily life.

