Anthropology

Have you ever discovered two people living the same life? One is 20 years behind the other, but Nathon is living Kelly’s life. All the major milestones are right; even some of the minor details are there.

Ally has been a friend of friends for some time, but it was only recently that we properly met. In many ways we are living the same life. And Layne is living our life 10 years ahead of us.

I am fascinated.

I wonder how many variations of life there really are. If you reduce it down to the fundamentals: personality, the type of family you are born into, the type of family you choose to produce, relative financial security, geographic and religious culture; even if each of these splinters us into ten segments, you can still expect to find one person exactly like you in every million you meet.

I guess that really does make each of us one in a million.

I presume history underpins and redefines the fundamentals. Or maybe that’s what creates the average man. There is a clear difference between the generation who lived through World War 2 and those who live now that the diagnosis of ADHD has replaced a parent’s responsibility to discipline. Perhaps the average man simply oscillates through history, much like Israel.

Alas, I am merely a closet psychologist. People are far easier to understand than the cultures they create.