Lefties of the world, Unite!!

To my surprise, i found out on yahoo.com that today is the Lefties Day.
Isn't it a great thing? well, if you are not lefty, then you wouldn't find it that great. As a left-handed, i find it even the greatest thing that can happen to the left-handed "community". Recognition!! That is the word!
Being left handed has always been an issue in my life. A serious one!!
When i was a little girl, dad used to tell me that only bright poeple are left-handed. i still remember his encouragement to me and my brother (left-handed too).i didn't understand then why he insisted on encouraging us, but when we went to school, i realized what he meant by that.
The world out there just did not know what left handedness is about.
Or maybe they did, but in the wrong way!! There were some teachers who admired my left-handedness as if it was an extraodinary attribute to human beings. Others just couldn't grasp it, and treated me as an "alien". Well, i don't want to be treated as an extreme, neither positively nor negatively.
Once, when my islamic studies realized that i am left-handed, he started yelling at me. yes, yelling at me and another friend of mine who was as "unlucky" as i was to be a lefty.the teacher said a lot of nasty things about us, like being Satan's "associates", mentally ad physically sick. He simply kicked us out of fear to "contaminate" him. i was 14, then.
Since my childhood, i had to cope with using instruments, at school, playing sports,or in the kitchen. Now i can use these tools way better with my right hand than with my left one. But there are a lot of things i can NOT do but with my left hand and I feel comfortable with it.
I am absolutely proud of being one lefty among all the leftieS of this world. It does no harm and there is absolutely NO wrong with it. My brother Simo,my sister (she's ambidextrous), my aunt, 4 of my cousins and other relatives are all left-handed.You can say that it is weird, but it just makes me happy and more confident about it.
A lot of my friends are left handed too, and a lot of the celebrities and famous histroy figures that i admire.
I AM different. We all are, in one way or another.