Not the Right way ➤⮜

 I am ambidextrous in some things - using a fork or a spoon (though not a knife 🤔); ten key and mouse; with screwdrivers and hammers. Playing the piano (is that really ambidextrous though?). Heck, I can play the guitar (very simply) with the neck on either side - though I guess that means sometimes I am playing it upside down.

Let's just say there are many times I can use whatever hand is available for the task, instead of having to shift everything. 

One of the things I am working on, however, it writing with my left hand. I have lovely penmanship, when I want to, with my right hand. But my left - eesh. I can barely read it sometimes, and I pride myself on my ability to "translate" handwriting. (I do. It's in my resume 😁).

And, in an attempt to improve, I seem to spend a lot of time comparing the differences - not just of how the final result looks, but of how I hold the pen, and how it feels to form the letters, and how I have to set the paper. And i think that comparison is impeding my progress.

My left hand and my right hand are going to have 2 different experiences. For one thing, we're coming at the paper at a completely different angle. When I'm using my right hand, it's like I'm leaving this trail of ink behind. But using my left hand, I am leading with the ink, and continually pass over it to the next word, phrase or thought. I am pushing the pen instead of pulling the pen. Writing with the left hand moves into my body instead of away.

And of course, there's the years (continuous) of practice for the right versus the days (accumulated) for the left.

So what works for the right hand is not necessarily going to work for the left. Which is kind of making my brain hurt. Because that means, I have to let myself figure out how the left hand does it, all on its own. We have the basics, but the execution will be unique. 

And if that's not a metaphor for life...