I never realized I was left-handed until after my child was born.
At first, I discovered that the child was accustomed to eating and holding things with his left hand. Then I gradually noticed that he used his left hand to draw, hold a phone, origami, and ride a scooter with his left foot. I also noticed that when he was riding a bicycle, he used his left hand to draw.
Until he got used to stepping on the pedal with his right foot and then stepping on the car with his left foot first.
Half a year ago, my child started to like drawing numbers. Similarly, I saw that his instinctive reaction was to hold the chalk with his left hand.
But as he used his left hand more and more, his family began to correct him frequently.
The main reason is that the family is worried that the left-hander will have a hard time when he reaches the age of going to school to write.
Another reason is more interesting. They feel that left-handers are not respected outside. They also say that many left-handers are stupid.
I wanted to stop my family from correcting my child's left-handedness, but it was difficult to do so.
On the one hand, I am also worried that it is more difficult to practice calligraphy with my left hand. On the other hand, I am recalling the episode when my grandmother forcibly corrected me from being left-handed when I was a child.
This feeling of inner struggle and conflict is very uncomfortable.
When I was practicing calligraphy when I was a child, because I always wrote from the right side of the rice paper to the left, I felt it was more convenient to use my left hand than my right hand, because that way I would not rub the newly written words.
But when I entered elementary school and had to write homework with pencil, I always wrote from left to right. If I wrote homework with pencil with my left hand, it would be easy to erase the words I just wrote.
Probably for this reason, my grandma kept telling me to change.
I just have to adapt to different writing situations and using different hands.
This once made me very frustrated, and finally I stopped practicing calligraphy after I entered junior high school.
Even when eating, I feel very tired, because when I hold the chopsticks in my right hand, I can't help but hold the spoon in my left hand at the same time. Even when eating wontons, I must hold the spoon in my left hand to drink soup and the right hand to hold the soup.
I'm holding wontons with chopsticks, and I'm eating noodles the same way.
I feel most comfortable only when I'm eating porridge, because I can use my left hand to hold the spoon to drink the porridge, and my right hand is free to use the chopsticks to pick up some side dishes.
But it's okay when I'm drawing, because no one is stopping me from holding the pen with my left hand or right hand, and I can use whichever hand I want.
Regarding the issue of left and right hand drawing, one thing that impressed me deeply is: when there was a scene in the TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" where "the left hand draws a circle and the right hand draws a square", my dad said how could this be done.
But my mother and I both thought it was very simple and easy to draw.
Then my dad admired me and my mom very much.
Later, I went to boarding school in high school, and finally no one corrected my habit of opening drink bottle caps with my left hand, washing my face with my left hand, and texting with my left hand every day.
Until smartphones came out, I would just press buttons on my phone with my left hand.
When I was a student, I never thought about the difference between left-handedness and right-handedness, which one is better and which one is worse.
I just know that there are some things I can only do with my left hand, and some things I can do with both hands.
But in these two habits, writing and using chopsticks, I have been trained to no longer use my left hand.
I never felt that there was anything particularly awkward about it.
After work, to avoid working overtime, I always work during lunch.
Many colleagues think I work too hard, but I actually enjoy that state: I am eating with my left hand and using the mouse or keyboard with my right hand.
The previous job was much busier than now, and it required a lot of talking. I remember that at that time, I basically had headphones in my ears all day long, and when the phone call came, it didn't affect my hands while typing.
As long as you don't panic, multitasking and multitasking can be well balanced.
But during class last Saturday, after a teacher gave me some advice, I was surprised to find out how much these two contradictory things, being born left-handed and acquired right-handed, had a great impact on my life.
Since most people in society are right-handed, many daily necessities are designed according to the living habits of right-handers, and such designs are simply painful for left-handers.
For example, a camera.
The shutter is on the upper right side of the camera. The habit of right-handers is to hold the lens with the left hand and press the shutter with the right hand.
Right-handers, please try the left-handed angle. Hold the lens with your right hand and press the shutter with your left hand. It is awkward beyond words.
Because I really like to study the languages, vocal ranges, and characters of various countries, sometimes I feel that I am being collided in several cultures, and then I have to find a way to find a way for each rhythm to find its own place.
If I hadn’t dreamed of being a surgeon, I don’t think I would have chosen chemistry as the 3+X subject in the college entrance examination.
Although I graduated with a major in science and engineering, what I really love is writing, literature, and language.
My least favorite subjects in college were advanced mathematics and calculus, but my memory of numbers is very strong: ever since I was a child, whenever someone said my birthday, I would never forget it after hearing it once.
; Many people’s mobile phone numbers are stored in their minds like an address book at a glance, and even long strings of numbers such as ID numbers and bank account numbers are also there.