 | on the left side of my body that plagues me with low level pain, especially when I drive, I began to think about changing some of the emphasis from the right to the left side. The Mother of necessity...
We're told from day one that once we choose right or left handedness that it is final. And so I always thought I was right-handed.
But I decided to try writing left-handed and was surprised that within hours I was starting to get fairly good at it.
Then I discovered through observation that I already did a number of things using either the left or right hand.
It would be interesting to see the way the brain would light up differently using left and right hands.
And I wonder, being fifty years old and just starting to acquire this weird new vector (sort of like having the sensation that someone else you've never met is taking control of your hand, some phantom inarticulate power that rises and falls as it grows stronger) if I couldn't have developed this 'new' talent long ago?
And why couldn't everyone possess and utilize this skill if properly directed and encouraged to do so?
Sadly, on a similar note, music programs in the schools barely exist either, a prime developer of intelligence. My daughter's music 'teacher' is the gymn instructor, in which they have received exactly zero instruction, even afer being required to purchase a recorder.
Is this a natural universal latent talent that can be learned at any age and that has been supressed through fear and religious superstition through the (dark) ages?
It was called sinister at one time to be left-handed. My brother had his left hand caned if he was seen by a teacher writing with it. Strangely, my left hand script resembles his writing, it's still a bit sloppy!
An hour a day keeps the other side at bay
I've got a left-handed way of being right
Next: left-handed mirror writing, tricky I bet...
The ghost of my other side comes back to life
Look Ma both hands! |
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