Reiko's 5th Journal

This time I had an opportunity to know a little bit about Kellie Lim, who is a pediatrics physician. I was impressed about her experience while watching the interview, and thought that how hard her life had been or how much effort she had put into her life so far. She was never a pessimistic person even though she encountered a misfortunate life when she was 8 years old. Her story kind of recalled the things my younger brother had been trying to do when I lived with him.
My younger brother used to be right handed until he got into a University. One day, when he was a second-year student of high school, as long as I remember, he suddenly started practicing how to use his left hand in every way. I totally didn’t understand why he stopped using his right hand, which was his stronger hand, and tried to use left hand. He, an ordinary person, didn’t need to practice like that. I sometimes used to make fun of his way of using chopsticks when having dinner with him and looking at him take longer to dial on the phone. It took for him a year or more to get used to using his left hand, but he finally succeeded in switching to his stronger hand.
I actually still don’t know why my brother decided to switch his stronger hand, however, after I watched Kellie’s interview tonight I am now very curious what he was thinking at the time. I want to ask him about the story sometime.
Obviously it’s not easy for people to switch the stronger hand especially after they already got used to using other one. The thing I thought today was it might be a good idea to start practicing how to use the hand which is not one’s stronger hand because we never know if an unfortunate accident will happen tomorrow.