Have you ever met someone who reminded you of someone else you’ve known before-–not only in their mannerism but even their physical appearance? You hear about people often breaking up with a girlfriend, boyfriend….divorcing their husband or wife (for various reasons of course)…just to end up with another person who looks ALOT like the person they just broke up with/divorced right?
They may not look EXACTLY like the other person but there is a STRONG resemblance? This is not coincidental, and if you pay close enough attention or get close enough to the new person you’ve met, you’ll very likely find that they also have similar histories/stores/personalities/characteristics even if their backgrounds (culture, race, job, religion) differ.
The physical appearance of someone you’ve never seen before may OR may not say much to you. However, our phenotypical aspect may actually say more than what may meet the eye. Of course, there are genetic components that make up our physical bodies and even determine some medical conditions we may have or may be predisposed to as well as some of our mannerisms and the way we think.
This realization came to me over the years but within the last 6 months, it was as if I was getting an influx of this type of thing. I’d go to some social setting and meet someone who reminded me physically of another person I know, and as I talked to them and got to know them better, their personalities and even their histories were similar. WHAT is this about and how can this help you in your journey through a world that is obviously physical but MOSTLY spiritual in nature?
What if I said, our physical make up and genetic make up is a direct result of our spiritual being? I believe that these “similar” people take similar life paths and we may encounter or interact with certain people to learn certain lessons and sometimes to help others learn lessons. The lesson may be to avoid certain people based on your experiences, note that this avoidance has NOTHING to do with race but appearance physically and certain similar physical and personality characteristics. It could also be to give certain people a chance that you hadn’t before or you did in the past and it did not work out. Although life paths may be similar, one (over the other) could have chosen very different roads and therefore the outcome of their current situation/status is therefore different as well as where they are in this physical world spiritually. However, sometimes, both people chose the same path and so, you can expect the same result essentially.
Of course other elements come in play like how a person grew up (with both parents vs single parent house hold, foster system, loving vs more abusive situation, economics etc) but even with these things factored in, the former of what I’ve mention still factors in with almost inconceivable, considerable strength beyond the latter.
I’ve even found that people who I think I favor 80% or more physically —have gone though similar personal struggles in life that I have and often have similar characteristics that I do. This has been helpful in me understanding some of the struggles in the journey of my life coupled with my own, God given intuition regarding those things in our world that are of a very spiritual nature.