My son met his biological father one time for one hour when he was six weeks old..my son is now 38 and he has many of his dads mannerisms and many of his personality characteristics and he really looks like his dad. I think that biology counts much more that we know.
I'm sure we all have moments of wondermenmt and curiosity. I had not equated this curiosity with facts and data just a moment of deep thought and introspection. Science presents us with many possibilities and the possibility of someone looking like me in my past is certainly not impossible. And even if there was one, they are so long dead that I'm sure there is no clear and present danger from them to me or to anyone else. Spooky? The dead are not the ones to be afraid of according to what I see and read everyday. Diversity? Yes, people are diverse, even in their thinking and beliefs and without that particular diversity one would never learn another thing in this life.
It is no more improbable that you may have someone who was the exact replica of you genetically than walking down the street and seeing a complete stranger who is almost a twin to someone you know. So much so that I have gone up and asked "Don't I know you?" Of course they look at me like I'm nuts but the familiarty is so startling that even after they say no, I still feel as if I know them from somewhere.
Sometimes I feel this strong sense of being someone else in another time and place but with the same feelings and thoughts and behavior.
posted by ladywrite2
I have always had dreams that make my think I was another person in another time. like in a parallel universe.
Likely my genetic twin was a former military Metrologist.....like me.....
When I look at the picture of my grandmother, I see her features in my own face. As a young girl in Sicily her marriage was arranged. She died at very young (age 39) but I always wonder what it must be like not to have fallen in love, but had someone arbitrarily chose a mate for you. I have this wedding picture from the 20s of her and my grandfather that keeps me grounded in my ancestry.
Once when I was browsing a flea market in NH there was a woman standing next to me who collected antique wedding pictures. She had no idea who the people in the pictures were, which I thought was pretty amusing.
I came across somebody who collected 'old' pics too--not knowing who they were. I thought what an odd collection--but this is life!
My brother has my dad's horrid temper. He also looks a bit like dad. My other bro is oppisite. I have a Great niece, ten yrs old, who is like my grandmother on dad's side--very very petiete. She hates being so small/short for her age!! kids tease her about it a LOT. Kids are cruel!
I think now that she is a bit older, they have quite teasing her so much.
I love finding information on relatives I knew nothing about. There are several people in my family doing this. I havn't done much, just enjoy what they find out!! I think I should try to dig up some info...sounds so fun. I HOPE nobody else was like me--YUK!! LOL
A cousin on my dad's side of the family meticulously researched the family tree and it ended when no further documents were found to substantiate their origins. Genealogy is a fascinating subject. I'm in awe of my descendants' lives, their children and what became of them--unless they were notoriously evil or had sketchy pasts. lol Many ancestors died young b/c there were no cures for diseases back then. Today life expectancy has increased. Thanks to medical science we're living longer than ever before.
