For me, that's only partly true. I'm left handed, but only sort of. I'm also right handed, but only sort of. Confused? I don't blame you. There are certain things I do left handed and certain things I do right handed. I eat and write left handed, but use tools and play sports right handed. I'm just a plain ol' mixed up guy!
I am NOT ambidextrous. However, I can do some things with either hand (although my dominant hand does these things better). For example, I can use tools with either hand, but my right hand is a bit more powerful and skilled with them. I can eat and write with my right hand, but is a bit clumsy because I naturally do these things left handed.
Why all this talk about being right handed or left handed? Well, it's all because I was hand writing a very important document at work today. Obviously I was writing left handed and I kept smudging the words across my paper. It looked like a first grader's writing. Not exactly something professional looking that a teacher would submit. Exasperated, I finally resorted to using a pencil. Using a pencil is not exactly professional either, but it beats smearing ink all over the place. This smudging has been happening since my earliest days as a writer. I remember being frustrated by this in elementary and high school. It will be a problem for lefties from now until doomsday. I also heard of a study that concluded that left handers have a shorter lifespan than righties. I'm not sure why that is, but it hardly seems fair. I guess the bright side is I will always smudge my writing, but I won't have to put up with it for a long time because I will die before my right handed friends.
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