This day honours the 13 percent who navigate a world designed for the right-handed
The 13th of August is commemorated as World Left-Handers Day, a day dedicated to the 13% of the world’s population who make do in a world that wasn’t meant for them. To many of us, left-handedness is just a fascinating statistic, something we mention in passing or wonder at during a discussion. However, for those of us who lean left, this is a quiet, everyday rebellion against a world that expects us to fit in when we don’t quite belong.From the moment we grip our first crayon, left-handers are thrust into a world where ease can be transformed into hand-to-hand combat.
Scissors bite painfully; pens spill over the paper; spiral notebooks are a tangle of discomfort. It’s completely out of tune, like music played in a different key. However, this dissonance does not weaken us, but rather it strengthens us. In a world designed for right-handers, left-handers learn to improvise, create, and, eventually, prosper.This kind of adaptability lends itself to creativity, which is sometimes cited as a virtue among lefties. To us, however, creativity is more than just an artistic talent; it is a survival ability. Being left-handed means seeing the world from a different perspective and approaching difficulties with a different mindset