I should have added to this point;

"There is a reason why left handers play left handed and right handers play right handed. If it wasn't easier and more practical to play the appropriate way, then we'd all play right handed as there would be no need to turn guitars around and restring them for left hande"

That reason is that your right hand (if you are right handed) is the rhythmically stronger hand and will set the pace for your left to dance to (and vice versa if you are left handed).