Throughout my life, especially since having
grown older, some people who had known
my father have told me I resemble him a lot.
I would add that I have inherited much from
him biologically and temperamentally. At
times, I see traces of my mother in me as well.
Makes perfect sense, genetics are bound to
manifest their behavior that way. We are in
many ways biologically and behaviorally
carbon copies in the ancestral familial bloodline.
I got the clinical depression gene from both parents.
And the propensity for alcohol abuse as well. Don’t
get me wrong, there have also been some positive
factors handed down in the evolutionary process.
But one aspect we as progeny fail to reflect upon
concerning the makeup and construct of our human
nature is the random and fickle proposition of
outright, flat out “Just plain luck.”
Certainly I would have never made it thus far
having been through all I have experienced
without a heaping measure of that.
Without the hit and miss aspect of luck, odds
on, I should have either been shot or run over,
flattened and sent to an early grave more than
once in my day. And, damn, here I am! What
more need I say?
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Chris Hanch 7-26-2021
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