As a child, I felt and saw myself differently. Most people have a common side of gripping and writing. When I started attending school, the curiosity grew. "Why are my classmates using their other hand to write?" "Why am I left-handed?" "Am I normal?" And when all the while I was asking those questions to myself, so are the people around me -- my classmates and my friends. Growing up, my parents never made me feel inferior about the issue. They always gave the reassurance that it was a gift --- God's gift and sign that I am different from anybody else, on a positive note.
A song goes -- "words can't bring me down" -- and so I was...It never made me pressured or depressed through the years to change the way I do my handwriting and gripping of anything. This left hand became my strength and instrument to where I am right now. It became my writing buddy for the longest time and now my main tool to accessories making.
Funny as it may sound for some but US celebrates National Left-Handed Day. Never had I known that they give value to the minority who had the different side of things -- being left-handed. Through time, my circle of acquaintances and relationships grew bigger and I discovered there were some more like me who are left-handed. And all of a sudden, being a leftie is normal. But the gifts out of left-handed, there were more than I thought -- painters, musicians, singers, writers, leaders...the list goes on...
A song goes -- "words can't bring me down" -- and so I was...It never made me pressured or depressed through the years to change the way I do my handwriting and gripping of anything. This left hand became my strength and instrument to where I am right now. It became my writing buddy for the longest time and now my main tool to accessories making.
Funny as it may sound for some but US celebrates National Left-Handed Day. Never had I known that they give value to the minority who had the different side of things -- being left-handed. Through time, my circle of acquaintances and relationships grew bigger and I discovered there were some more like me who are left-handed. And all of a sudden, being a leftie is normal. But the gifts out of left-handed, there were more than I thought -- painters, musicians, singers, writers, leaders...the list goes on...
Thank God I am a leftie...Happy Left-handed Day!!!
to the left...to the left...^_^
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