There’s always more U in Unique.
I’d like you all to do me a favour, and that is to please raise your hand if you know what a “doppelganger” is?
All raised? No… Ok I shall explain.
Doppelganger is a look-alike of yourself. Usually considered a celebrity but still can be otherwise.
Usually its flattery when you are compared to a very attractive celebrity or someone similar. But, the problem with these doppelgangers is that they depersonalise the initial person you are and now have shared characteristics with the person you’ve been compared too and vice versa.
Everyone always says that no matter what, every single person on this earth is special and unique in their own way. But is this really true? There can only be a certain amount of characteristics that exist in the human form. How they are expressed are different, yes, but nonetheless they have a limit. For Example, voice. There can only be a certain amount of voices in human existence as the voice box itself isnt altering itself for each different person. Hence why we meet people who have similar voices to another person we know.
What happens when we do meet another person whom shares characteristics of another that we know previous to meeting this second individual? We immediately compare the two and work out the one more preferred. Sure, this is kinda interesting and cool on a very irregular basis. But what happens when its multiple times a week with many different and new people? Is that suggesting that there is carbon copies of one person that have been released on the world in many different locations and coincidence has brought a mutual friend together to indicate said carbon copies. If that is true (which I understand is a very far out exaggeration) then which is the original? are they all copies from each other… Or the simple generic person.
As you may have guessed, you intolerably smart shrew. I am referring to myself and events that happen to me.
People constantly approach me and tell me that they remind me a lot of another person they know. Which upon first impressions, depersonalises me and alters their impression if i dont live up to the standard of the person they knew previous to me.
This, in tern means the person has to chose whom they prefer with these characteristics, and due to their previous relationship with the other person, they will prefer the other person because they came first.
All of this is another tangent into my “silver medal” theorem. Simply said, why are some people chosen over others? Because even though they have similar or have synonymous characteristics. They will always choose the one they know more of and have known for the longest. That’s just basic relationship psychology.
So to shorten it more. If someone likes someone more than you, they’ll pick the other person nearly 100% of the time.
To move along the tangent of Silver Medalism.
Bare with me, this may get really stupid sounding, but to me it has a lot of relevance.
I once read a book when I was younger (shock horror!!) the book was titled “Mr Normal”… Mr John Normal had a very boring and lonely life. He had no friends, he was plain, he didnt do much and he had a remedial job. The main complication of this short book was for John Normal to find a companion… He didnt find a person, he found a bird.
John Normal had no special qualities about him, he was just the average human both physically and in what he did. The odd thing is I LOOKED LIKE THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF MR. NORMAL! He did things that I do…
I understand this can be a very convoluted coincidence but still. It has altered many thought patterns I have had.
All this talk about me reminding people of others or being very very similar to others AND the resemblence to the average person, John Normal makes me think a lot, and clearly not in the positive light.
I think about the idea that due to those things. Could I be the generic human? The average person? The person who never raises too high at something, never too low, and just stays stagnant for existence?
I understand the evidence is very unsubstantial to prove this. But those are my feelings.
It makes me feel like I am the basic foundation on which better people are built… The comparison if you will…
The traits about me are not special. They are not unique and they are not just mine.
I wish to propose a challenge… Find something unique about me? Something I do or something other, that makes me unique? Find something that someone else doesnt have… go for it… I DARE YOU!
Yes, there is always someone out there better than me. That person is you. You have better people, people who are ACTUALLY special and unique to fraternise with or you’ll have someone who shares a trait that I also have. Go fraternise with them. They’re better
