The other day I was observing my flatmate whom I have been friends with almost all my life. It is strange but he mirrors his old man perfectly well. I could not help but marvel at the uncanny resemblance and mannerism.
As I get older I understand why most parents get easily scared when they see their kids acting in a certain way. It is often because kids pick up behavioural patterns that are similar to their parents. When parents notice this path is leading to a familiar place of regrets and mistakes, they flip out.
Children do not have the luxury of the past so they sheepishly walk down the path of their parents. Their parents' reactions almost immediately trigger some form of resistance. Asides from wanting to do their own thing (which was their parents' previous thing), they just grasp their interaction to a seemingly normal act.
My life today, based on my assessment, is a semi-replica of my parents. It seems perfectly scripted, how their previous experiences mirror my current experience and I can't help but think that we are in some sort of simulation.
I can say the same about my friends, they all mirror their fathers in some way. They either mirror their father's physical or attitudinally. If not their fathers then their mothers. The point is at some point the old becomes the new.
At this point, I can predict certain things about a person based on the lives of their parents, with some level of accuracy. Once I spot the pattern it is almost impossible to refute.
For instance, I know I have my father's good fortune (we mirror each other that way). Things just happen to work out for me somehow, no matter the circumstance. Also, I noticed that our life path is similar, which is why I try to make tweaks where I think he did not do so well.
I am not saying that we are our parents' doppelgangers. What I am saying is that we mirror certain parts of our parents' lives, and those connections can be so strong they are easily replicated, with or without any effort.
So I have a template to follow. I just have to look into the past and mirror the lives of my parents, figure out the aspects of our lives that correlate and improve on that. Easier said than done. Sometimes you end up making their mistakes unconsciously.
Recently I spotted a pattern that scares the hell out of him and it doesn't directly involve me and my parents. In this case, I am inheriting a pattern, which is possible through any form of connection. The scary thing here is that I cannot change this pattern.
The future is fundamentally the same as the past. We might have diversions but at the core of life, everything is a cycle. We all need to carefully examine the patterns of our lives and tweak them to better our path for ourselves and those who will follow them later in the future.
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