Am I "Left" out?

I don’t know whether it is a handicap of mine or simply a weakness or is it certainly a quality that I must not posses? or is it something bad I had been doing all this while just because some of the elders in my family oppose me for doing it? Whatever it may be I instantaneously, start disliking people especially those gossip mongers who start advising me with no apparent concern.

When I was a small girl….. say 3 years….. My Great Grandma was alive then, about two years ago she passed away………. She tried changing my habit…… my mother never had a problem with the way I was/am so does my father or uncle or my grandma, But my Great Grand Ma was too skeptical about it, that is about me being a left hander…… She used all possible ways within her means, she even went to the point of threatening me, that I would be swallowed by a ghost if I don’t change my ways….. I still remember the way my uncle came to my rescue….. he was particularly very happy about the fact that I am a left hander for he was also one and he was forced to change his habit and he didn’t want that to happen with me…..

I grew up enjoying compliments and enduring all sorts of absurdities both from people who care about me and those gossip mongers but then surprisingly my parents had no problems with me being a left- hander. Sometimes when somebody with an air of self-importance around them start advising me with the illusion of doing a great service to me, my parents and some of the others used to ask them to buck off .

Eating in a marriage hall used to be the worst thing of all, people wont allow me to eat properly, some of them would stare at me with awe and wonder some of them with reproachful eyes, If I am successful in ignoring their stares and start eating to my hearts content, there sure would be some crackpots who would make it a point to come and ask me as to why I am eating in my left-hand and you can surely count on at least two of them to stop by your table and give you their "valuable advise"……..

But slowly times changed, I started reacting differently to these people who advised me, I used to politely ask them to get lost, then too if they persist on advising me, I point-blankly used to ask them to mind their own business and save their advise for somebody who has no better job to do……

This phase in my life also changed, for the past two years as far as I can remember I haven’t shouted at anybody for advising me to change my habit….. I simply look at them when they give me advise and nod my head, at the most if the advise they are giving me is pathetically long, I try stopping it by telling them things like “what to do I didn’t have a nice intelligent considerate person like you in my childhood to give me such a wonderful piece of advise……”