The Oddity Being a Left Hander In a Right Wing

Life as an ambidextrous is real tough. Granted that it has its own advantages, but at  the same time the disadvantages are nothing less, not to mention the confusion which is triggered wanting to ponder aloud, "I am naturally what?"

In my case, I still haven't figured out which part of my brain is more dominant: The right or the left and I can't even predict what task which hand of mine will handle. When I say, "I can do a particular thing efficiently with my right," it turns out to be the opposite and I end making a fool of myself!

And to make it more difficult for me as a fan, I face the same problem when it comes to most sports and more so in tennis. Watching tennis is like seeing through a mirror reflection: without a mirror in question.

To make matters more ironical is the fact that my favourite tennis player is a right-hander instead of a lefter. Given the state of my confused Medulla Oblongata, I should have chosen and attuned myself to a Rafa than a Federer rather than complicating the already complicated.

Of course I don't intend to mean that I have made a huge blunder by rooting for Federer; that's something I shall never regret but what I mean is, it would have been easier and simpler had he been a left-hander or better still, I a right-hander.

These days, though it isn't that hard to assimilate the difference between a forehand by the left hander-turned-backhand of a right hander, it still takes me a couple of minutes to let that sink in.

The other day, I was watching the match between Federer and Kiefer where they were showing a hawk-eye about Federer's shot placements bifurcating the forehand and the backhand; I was so happy to see his backhand errors were so minimal that day and almost went overboard with joy that he finally managed to work on it.

However I proved a killjoy on myself when I realised that what I was perceiving to be his backhand was in fact his forehand and therefore the minimisation of the errors!

Of all the sports I follow, it's tennis where I get additionally conscious of my left-handedness than what I feel as a "Right brained dominated" cricket player so much so that for quite sometime now, I have started to wonder whether I am actually right in the head or not!