左利きに関する経験
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Hello.
Hey guys, how's it going?
Okay, this is from Hoshio Hoshiko-san.
やまちゃん、ケビンさん、こんにちは。
いつも楽しくお二人の会話を聞いて癒されている50代、いつまでも落ち着きのない会社員です。
質問です。私は左利きです。
そして子供の頃からなぜか同じ左利きの人にとても惹かれます。
性別や年齢関係なく、「あ、仲間がいる。」と勝手に脳が感じてしまうのか。
左利きというだけで知らない方にも声をかけたくなります。
お二人は上期のように自分にしかわからない理由で人に惹かれてしまうことはありますか。
また私の子供の頃は左利きは右利きに強制されることがほとんどでした。
外国ではどうなんでしょうか。これからも細くてもいいので長くポッドキャストを続けてくださいね。
左利きはそんなに珍しいかどうかわからない。
左利きは結構たくさん見つけますよね。
そうですね。
それはちょっと怖いかもしれません。
誰かがあなたに来て、「左利きですよ!」と言ってくれるかもしれません。
何か売ってくれるかもしれません。
あの頃はそうでしたね。
そうですね。
左利きの特性
左利きは悪い。
子供が右利きにならないといけない。
私の家族の一人がそうしたことを覚えています。
彼は右利きに強制されました。
あなたではなくて?
私ではなくて。
私は右利きに強制されていたかもしれませんが、
私はそれがあまりに悪かった。
私は左利きになりたいと思っていました。
そうですね。
だから私は左利きになりました。
でも私の部分では、
私がバットやゴルフをする時、
私は右利きになっています。
あなたはバッティングをやっていますか?
私はバッティングをしています。
私の左手は低いです。
それは右利きです。
それは右利きです。
そうですね。
あなたはピッチングをしますか?
私は左利きでピッチングをします。
私は右利きでキックをします。
あなたは右に立ちますか?
そうです。
私は右利きでも左利きでも少しです。
チョップスティックは左利きです。
あなたが私と違うことします。
本当ですか。
あなたはボクシングをしていますか?
私はボクシングをしています。
あなたは左利きです。
左利き?
はい。
これについてどうお知らせますか?
How do you know just by looking at my stance, you know if I'm lefty or not?
Because right is like, you use right hand to make a punch, right?
Yeah, but...
And you're using left hand to do this punch, like a straight punch.
Okay.
Well, is that a common knowledge?
I think so.
I get tired like this.
Oh, that's lefty.
The lefty?
Yeah.
Okay.
Wow.
So I'm weird.
I'm weird.
Like I just...
Yeah.
So I guess it's very difficult for you to play guitar.
Yes.
I think I've done it several times, tried to play the guitar, learned myself how to do it.
Yeah.
I gave up, man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I get it.
Because it's...
Everything is...
Will be like...
It's mirrored.
Yeah.
I don't know how to...
But...
Okay.
Wow.
I heard there's a guitar for left-handed.
Yeah.
I...
Yeah, I've heard of that.
You've tried that?
But I was...
You know, I didn't have enough courage to buy it, you know?
Because once you buy it, like you're in...
You gotta do it, right?
Yeah, yeah.
That's true.
Right.
I was a little bit half-assed, so...
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Right.
My dad is also a lefty guy.
He...
But I guess he writes with right hand.
He was forced into it.
I think so.
He throws, he kicks, everything is left.
But I guess writing is the only thing on the right hand, I guess.
Have you met anybody who can write in both hands?
Like, either one.
Yeah.
Have you?
No.
Have you?
No.
No.
I wonder if that's possible, you know?
True.
Because if you've never seen it...
I've never seen those.
And there's a whole generation of people who are forced into the other hand.
Yeah.
I feel like it's possible that, you know...
Sure.
The left is still kind of, like, potentially in there.
Yeah.
So, like...
True.
Yeah, I've wondered that, but I guess no one...
It's very practical.
It's very useful when you do, like, kanji doriru and everything.
It's true.
You can write, like, twice as fast.
True.
That's true.
Yeah.
It's very nice.
Yeah.
Yeah, there are people who use chopsticks or, like, baseball.
You can ryouchi.
Oh, true.
Ryounage.
That's true.
So, ryokaki.
Ryokaki is...
Yeah.
Okay.
What about your ear?
Sorry?
If you had to take one ear off...
Okay.
If you have, like, earphones on...
Oh.
Which one would you take out?
I will take my left side headphone off.
Me too.
Me too.
Me too.
Oh.
Does that mean we're left...
Well, you're the one that's supposed to know that.
I don't know about that.
But I guess we're all maybe right...
The other side?
Yeah.
Maybe you do the other side?
Because you want to hear this side.
Okay.
I don't know.
Oh.
I don't know about ears.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, but it's strange how we, like, all have this...
I want to listen to it with this ear and keep it on.
Otherwise, it's going to feel weird.
True, true.
It's weird how...
And eyes too, right?
You have, like...
Ah, that's true.
I don't know which one is which, but...
Oh.
I want to look at it with...
If I had to use one eye, my right one.
Right one?
Right one.
Maybe left?
Left?
Your eyes are too good.
I don't know.
Your eyes are too good.
Yeah.
Wow.
If you had to bite something really hard,
which side would you bite?
I do left.
I do right.
Oh, okay, okay.
But probably that's because I'm, you know,
治療中 left side,
so right now I do the right.
Hmm.
Nice.
You have side...
Yeah.
Wait, don't you?
Don't you have the side, like...
I've never thought about it.
If you had to bite something really hard...
Always left.
Always left?
Yeah, more than one.
Yeah.
If I'm healthy teeth conditions,
maybe left side.
Oh, left side?
Yeah.
Okay, okay.
Right.
Yeah.
Strange.
Yeah, strange.
Yeah, strange how you don't have that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hmm.
You know how you have,
when you go down the stairs,
you're like, you have a preference of like,
左足のルールの起源
you want to end your stairs with your left leg?
Yeah.
Or right?
Yeah.
Left leg.
How did that start?
Why left?
Hmm.
That's a good question.
Hmm.
I've been doing this since when I was elementary.
Hmm.
So I guess something terrible happened.
Like, I don't know.
That was, oh, I saw some movie or whatever.
Hmm.
Something terrible.
I thought it's possible for me or for us
to experience this thing.
Hmm.
And I was very scared.
Okay.
By imagining those things.
Okay.
And then I wanted to do something
to prevent those things to be happened.
Hmm.
And that was like,
or like kind of, I don't know,
like things like that.
Yeah.
And at the moment, I guess I did many things more.
Hmm.
I remember I was saying something.
Oh, yeah.
I remember I was saying certain phrases
while I was...
So my room was at the second floor.
Okay.
So every time I say goodbye to my family,
I woke up stairs and then go to my bedroom.
Okay.
That was the moment I did my omajinais.
Are you talking about, wait,
are you talking about nighttime
after you say goodnight to your parents?
Nighttime, yes.
Okay.
Yes, yes, before I go to sleep.
Okay.
I said goodbye to my family members or my parents
or my grandma.
And then I...
You go upstairs to your room.
Yeah, yeah.
So on the way, I did many things,
like many omajinais to...
Okay.
To make sure that it doesn't happen.
Tomorrow will come.
Yeah.
And one of them was the stairs.
You had to end with your left foot.
Yes, yes.
And at the same time,
I remember I said certain phrases in my mind
伝統と習慣の考察
while I was walking up to the...
So it's in your mind, not physically.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And day by day, I've grown up and just...
You don't say it anymore.
Yeah, but still this day,
the left thing is still going on, I guess.
Do you remember what you said?
Yeah, I kind of remember.
Yeah?
Yes, yes.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's not to be shared.
No, no, no, no.
No, obviously not.
Wow.
Yeah, memory came back.
It's surprising how you still do it.
Yeah.
It's been years.
True.
20 years or something, right?
Yes, yes, yes.
But still, it's in me, I guess.
The tradition still continues.
I'm doing this.
Yeah, wow.
Wishing.
Wow.
Tomorrow will come.
But you're not doing it because you're afraid
that tomorrow will come, right?
Yeah, I'm not that afraid anymore, but...
Yeah.
Yeah, partially, that's still in me.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
I mean, I half understand why you do that.
Okay.
I mean, I can't remember,
but I think I had something similar to that when I was a kid.
I think I do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I guess it's just like you need a little...
when you sleep, you can't sleep.
Yeah, it's like...
I guess kind of like that, maybe?
I don't know, but...
You want something to believe in, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If I don't do this, something terrible will happen, kind of.
Yeah, yeah.
Right, right, right, right.
Yeah.
All right.
Thanks for sitting, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
