Superficial similarities (and our delusional expectations) too often provoke us to overlook some of the most powerful and astonishing of our endowments.

People think that they have two arms, two hands, two legs, two ears, two eyes. They’re not entirely wrong about this, yet they do not understand that one of each of these pairs belongs largely to a specific hemisphere of the brain, and thus they are not even slightly identical in character or function. Each hand has different uses and abilities. So, too, each eye.

Did you know each ear -hears differently-? One of them is far better at detecting language, and the other specializes in music — but that’s only one aspect of their difference. Even the functionality of your feet differs, and the difference is not simple, but dramatic.

To be bilaterally symmetrical is deceptive; I encourage you to take a moment to explore what it means to embody these strangely distinct physical reflections. Discover your body and abilities… anew… as if you didn’t entirely trust the visual similarity of its apparent duplications…