Doppelgänger

I have been told many many times that i look or remind them of someone else. At the show, this one woman could have sworn i was a person she works with, but when we were face to face and I gave no recognition to who she was, that was her tell tale sign that I was not this other person. I find this a common thing with me. Either my personality or looks are EXACTLY like someone else.

I have had it happen to me where I have seen someone in a random person. Most times I don't act upon it, knowing that I am most likely wrong and that person just reminds me of them. But of course there is that nagging little voice in the back of your head saying- well it has been a while and they could have changed....

Another thing I wonder is if whether or not I finally meet this person, will I see them as me? Most likely not, since we are so overly critical of ourselves and can pick ourselves apart so quickly. But that makes me think, what is it about these other identical "me" is me? Is it my posture, the way i walk, stand, hold my head, facial expressions? Same hairstyle? I would get that one a lot dependent on my hairstyle. If i never hear that I look just like Liza Minelli again... (I am soooo not cutting my hair short again). I even got Linda Evangelista, which wasn't so bad, but that was due to her haircut as well.

So what makes me ME? How do people remember each other? Sight? Smell? I think it's little fragments. If you ask me to think of what someone looks like, someone I have known all my life, I will see them at many different stages and piece them together. I won't see just a photograph of them. I will see fragments. Ohhh, I sense a possible art project.....