My Weird Judgment

I am not the kind of person who lets physical appearance effect my final decision about someone, but there is one body part I will judge the crap out of you. Hands. Sure faces can be pretty and what not, but hands are the most telling part of a human being. How you use your hands says not only a lot about how you’re feeling but about what kind of person you are.  If you’re the kind of person who usually crosses your arms and tucks your hands in your pockets, maybe you’re more reserved around new people.  If you’re like me and always have their hands visible and moving when talking to people, you’re probably Italian (half kidding).

If I am bored in class, I will watch people’s hands and try to figure out what they’re like.  There’s this one person in particular that is in many of my classes and I watched them peel a sticker off a folder and meticulously fold it. Their hands are always doing something productive. They never doodle with their pens. It’s either notes or memos. And when that person speaks, they always have precise answers to questions. I have, in my totally scientific way of being creepy, proven this method of judgment to be fairly effective.

As I’ve developed this theory, it made me more aware of my hands and I’ve observed moments where I feel uncomfortable and I realize that I’m picking at my thumbs, or times when I feel really good and my hands are open at my sides. One particular moment that I was obsessing over my hands was while watching the video of me singing “Gravity” and there’s a part in the bridge where I belt at the very top of my range and I remember being horribly nervous. While I got into the note I realized I wasn’t going to crack, and that I was hitting it pretty darn well. If you go back and watch the video my right hand goes from clenched and tiny but while I hold the note, my fingers slowly spread wide open. I must have watched that single moment ten times because I was so excited that my hand-watching habit was paying off.

And on that note I shall leave you all to go watch people’s hands and see what you can read about them.