LEFTIE (A long read)

Some people are born left-handed while others are no. There is something sleek about the left hand. This is because when a leftie uses his/her hand to write or work there is certain strangeness to the whole activity. It seems one has to turn the head this way and that trying to understand how they (the lefties) do it. The preferred use of the left hand to the right is however not an issue of choice as some children are known to either be born with that preference or grow up with the habit. The left hand is associated with disrespect and bad manners in arguably many (if not all) Nigerian culture.

There's this word they call people who make the best use of their right and left hands, okay I think I got the word "Ambidextrous". I'm a typical example of an ambidextrous person. Naturally I was born a leftie but as time went by, I noticed likewise my parents even though I never knew what it meant I could use my right hand to do certain things like dishes, laundry, eating and the likes, most People who know me or probably at some point been close to me would notice I am more of a leftie than a rightie. A co-leftie friend tweeted recently : "I can never forget this day we had a feast in church and I was eating with my left hand(like I always do) An old woman had to walk up to me to tell me that she can never eat with me or beside me. My sister was like "Okay, who asked you🤷" 

This actually depicts how "weird" we lefties are being treated in the society and personally I give zero worries about that.

It's often being said that left handed People are more intelligent and special (said to have special abilities) than righties, well to some extent research has proven that.(believe it or not that's your own cup of coffee). In Africa, Nigeria to the precise, being left handed is considered "weird" and lefties have a lot to deal with. Nigerians look at left handers with disdain and on several occasions reject handshakes and receiving money with a left hand, in this side of the world that we are, some elderly persons see it as a sign of disrespect and a mannerless behaviour to collect things with an outstretched left hand..Well I've been in this situation many times and at some point I felt embarrassed but as I grew older I felt it was their own cup to tea to think that lefties are weird people.

I would like to conclude these by saying being left handed is not a bad thing, if people address you as being weird thank them, if people call you rude and mannerless thank them because you never made yourself like that God made you that way and God doesn't make mistakes so I don't think it's a bad thing for him to have made you a leftie. Today isn't left handers day but I just felt we all need to be enlightened on this things. 

-Eminent 💛