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Since when did you start to use chopsticks? This the question I asked my college English teacher. He told me that he used chopsticks about ten years ago when he tried at a Chinese rstrautant in his hometown. He is an American and speaks little Chinese. Before travelling around the world, he was a programmer and now some of his codes are still working in those softwares once he cooperated and developed with colleagues. Mostly we are righthanded by resorting to right hands to use chopsticks. While he can just be fine by using either of his hands.I feel it interesting and have tried many times and failed to use in left hand.
That may be the reason we are just asked to use right hands whenever we try to use something, chopsticks, a pen, a racket and so forth. So we get used to it. He does not has that problem since no one else ever pushed him to use his right hand to pick up chopsticks. Then he found it fine trying his left hand. There is no absolute and fixed routine for us to answer a question. Usually we just feel it stuck at something because we believe it does not work beyond our understanding. The fact is there are so many answers we can try to solve out. If possible I will ask him again: "How do you use hands to hold fork and knife to eat?"
Once I was taught to shoot a basketball to score. Under the coach's instructions, first I used right hand to hold the ball and finally had it throw into the basket. Some days later, I was pushed by a defender to the corner where I got no ideal angle to shoot. What the hell, no members were there I could pass them my ball. Then I just used the left hand trying to shoot by changing another postion. I took a fake action by cheating that defender and switched the ball to left hand. Shooting! Scored with three points.I did not know what on earth I got that incredible shooting, but I knew it is better than no trial. Then I realized the left hand is also ok for shooting and holding a ball.
If there is a dead end, it must be something wrong. Change and have another try. Whatever a pair of chopsticks or a single ball, we can have different ways to figure out which we have never tried before.
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- Reply sunnyv
- We never know how strong we are until being strong is the only choice we have.
As humans, when we know that when we are at risk, we would automatically switch to ''survival mode''. Everyone functions better in a survival mode because it is a matter of life or death.
We live in a world of ''survival of the fittest''. This is to live or die.
This is the winner takes all. So those who try hard enough takes it all.
I myself have been through a lot of challenges. I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.
We have been given two hands for a reason. There are a lot of situations whee you need both hands. In an emergency left or right hand is the same, but in normal times, we are programmed to use the right hand for most functions.
Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and wondered,
Why do humans have 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 hands, 2 legs, 2 kidneys, etc?
They are there for a reason. Our creator, god knows that humans are careless adventurers, so he gave us a spare for the most important parts of our body.
Being blind is the most painful experience a person can have. Close your eyes for 10 minutes and imagine, then you will know how difficult it is. Therefore, treasure whatever you have now. Nothing is guaranteed. What you have today could be lost tomorrow.
- Reply teadrinking
- Nice explanation. God bestows best miracle on us and we are created to be strong survivors. Millions of years' evolution, we become what we are right now. We are inherited the genes of adventure to explore the known. Our bodies have potential power that we do not know till we meet some unexpected situations.
sunnyv: We never know how strong we are until being strong is the only choice we have.
As humans, when we know that when we are at risk, we would automatical ...
When I close eyes, I have another experience as the connection to my inner mind. It is amazing feeling because it likes a vast black hole that I have to seek those unknown mysteries on my own. It has fear, greed, wrath and some others, meanwhile it contains bravery, determination, will, etc. That is probably the door for us to think about ourselves when we sit alone and sink into deep meditation.
When we are on the way to know ourselves, we get more familiar with our soul. Then we understand better things around us, and behave gently to embrace the world with the merciful mind of cherish everything.
- Reply sunnyv
- Exactly. That is what happens when we close our eyes and imagine.
teadrinking: Nice explanation. God bestows best miracle on us and we are created to be strong survivors. Millions of years' evolution, we become what we are right ...
- Reply Rosanna
- I am a simple and little woman, I have never thought using the chopistick with my left hand, due to my right hand is available, that's mean i just am thinking with the normal way, I do appreciated you and others do something in differents, even i know no any fix answers for things, but I am not so smart to think to much, I don't want to make myself so complicated
- Reply teadrinking
- Simple life is also what I want. Simple but not boring. That is the way I try making it more meaningful and colorful by enriching through my ability to create some chances to see my potential. Mostly we just do not know that we can be better so long as we are with strong will to discover the unknown.
Rosanna: I am a simple and little woman, I have never thought using the chopistick with my left hand, due to my right hand is available, that's mean i just am ...
