When a busy but bored adult tries using their left hand.

At dinner time, I watch various dramas, both new and old, on U-NEXT.
Right now, I'm watching "Yume wo Kanaeru Zo" (The Elephant Who Grants Wishes).
It's actually a drama from 2008.
It's a story about Ganesha, a god in the form of an elephant who speaks in a Kansai dialect,
who changes the protagonist's life while giving them "daily tasks."
I remember watching it back then, but I've almost forgotten the content, so
I'm watching it with a fresh perspective.

In one episode, the task was to "use your left hand."
Seeing this, my daughter and I, both right-handed, immediately switched hands for holding our chopsticks.
I can't even hold chopsticks properly.
However, my daughter said, "Actually, I can do it," and
was handling the chopsticks skillfully with her left hand, which surprised me!
When I asked, she said that the topic of left-handed versus right-handed people came up during school lunch,
and she "tried it out of curiosity and it actually worked."
Are young people just more flexible-minded? It's amazing.

Since it would be a disaster during a meal, I decided to try it with other things.
First, I tried to cut plastic wrap with my left hand.
But it wouldn't cut.
I switched back to my right hand to check how I usually cut it,
and when I tried with my left again, it cut completely diagonally.
Or rather, did I just tear it by force?

I opened the lid of the powdered laundry detergent box,
held the spoon with my left hand to scoop it, and tried to put it into the washing machine's dispenser...
That was when I first noticed.
That the pouring spout of the round spoon was on the left side.

Until then, I hadn't even been aware
that the spoon had a pouring spout at all.
I realized for the first time, even though I've been using it for years, that this is made for right-handed people
because the majority of people are right-handed.
Come to think of it, the position of the IC card reader at train station gates,
the coin slot on vending machines...
I finally realized that there are many things in the world that are prioritized
because we are on the "majority side" of being right-handed.
Do left-handed people
naturally make adjustments and adapt to a world prioritized for right-handed people?
I'm full of first-time realizations and can't even manage to make adjustments yet.

Now that I'm this much of an adult, every day is just a repetition of the same thing.
I had thought that somewhere along the way.
I have so much to do and I'm busy.
At the same time, I also find it very boring.
But in that same old daily life,
there are surely still many things I haven't noticed.
On a whim, I tried using my non-dominant hand.
Just by doing that, the world in front of me hasn't changed at all.
It's just that my own way of seeing things has changed a little.
I thought that was somehow interesting.

"By trying to use your opposite hand, you'll see a world you never knew before."
Ganesha, played by Arata Furuta, said something like that.
If you're just listening, it feels a bit exaggerated, like, "Just because of that?"
But by trying it on a whim,
I really did see a world I didn't know, just a little bit.
Next, should I try typing on my smartphone with my left hand?

Should I try holding the dishwashing sponge with my left hand?
My right hand might feel a bit nervous that it might drop a dish
because it's doing the opposite of its usual role.