手心冒汗

I have a pair of sweating hands. Everyone's hand sweats. But mine just sweats a lot more, and regardless of the conidtion. It happens to some people too. I saw 古巨基 once on TV demonstrating his "ability". He put his hand a a pile of stamps. And all stamps were glued on his hand.

As an (ex-)biochemist, I was trying to figure out the function of sweating with hands and feet. I know cats do that to lose heat, as they don't have sweat gland elsewhere. But for human, besides losing some water from the body, I don't see any advantage in evolution. In fact, there is a lot disadvantages. I noticed the problem when I was in Primary 2.

When I was in Primary 2, there was an outting to visit the general post office in Central. We lined up in pairs. I was the first in the queue, because of my surname (not my height). Next to me, the teacher assigned the class monitor to walk with me. As soon as I knew that, I almost wanted to kiss my teacher. It's because the monitor was a gorgeous girl in my class. I was so happy to be able to walk with her. And the teacher asked us to hold hand in hand throughout the trip in the post office. At that minute, I was the happiest kid in the class. But the next minute, the nightmare came. My hands were really wet. No matter how I wiped it off from my shirt, it was still so wet. I felt so embarrassed. The girl kept shaking me off to wipe her hands. Since then, I really hate my hands.

At one point, I thought the evolution was trying to eliminated people with sweating hands by making them not able to find a mate. But I don't remember since when, I have ignored this "problem" of mine. At work, if you care to work with me, you will still shake my hands. In love, same thing. It's something more than the appearance.

Confidence came back. But the hands are still sweating. Sigh... Even getting used to it over the years, handling stuff could still be troublesome with all those sweat. But on the bright side, I do find them sometimes useful. For instance, opening a new plastic bag that sticking together, counting new bank notes, etc. Ha! But if you know kids having that problem, you may want to seriously think about surgically removing some nerves to make it stop. It is really quite disturbing, both physically and mentally. My hands do get dry once in a while. Sometimes, it could be dry for days. And I wish that it will go away forever. This was actually my birthday wish for some years, which hasn't yet come true.