Look-alikes?

I am not sure how common it is to be told by people that they know someone who looks 'just' like you. It happens very, very often with me. Now, there is apparently a myth that there are 7 people (or is that 9?) in the world who look like any given person.

My earliest recollection is interesting. There was this junior at school (I must have been in the 3rd or 4th grade) who looked a lot like me. He was significantly taller than me, but the facial resemblance was uncanny. There was an instance when I had almost gotten into trouble because of something idiotic this imposter had done! This is also the only instance when I have seen my look-alike.

I have been told many times how I look very similar to someone. This lady's neighbour or that guy's electrician. I have been told that I look like one singer and two small screen actors. Incidentally, my 'look-alike sightings' were significantly higher when I was wearing my hair long.

One day, a friend called me up and excitedly insisted that I reach Koramangala immediately. The reason? He had seen a copy of me. A girl. In fact, he apparently ran into her again a few days later. He swears that she had exactly my face!

The most recent addition - this person apparently is built like me, looks exactly like me and also talks like me. Only he is 80 years old.

So, are there really n number of people who look like us? And if so, does the resemblance go beyond just appearance? How can the resemblance be explained? Is there any connection between look-alikes?

Does this keep happening to me because I have a "generic" face?

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While I could find nothing worthwhile on the internet, some other interesting stuff I ran into:

http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2009/02/05/russian-lady-killed-look-alikes/
http://haha.nu/amazing/im-not-a-look-a-like/

hmm. hmm.

The gloriously melancholic weather makes anything other than gentle sulking incredibly difficult. Going on for the past few days is this:

$ while true; do mplayer Kabhi\ tanhaion\ main--Hamari\ Yaad\ Ayegi.MP3 ; done


It is a reasonably common experience, while you are deeply meditating upon certain things, to encounter something, totally out of the blue, that freakishly resonates with your thoughts.

Prolong this over a few days. Add a couple of bouts of deja vu moments. Mix it with dull overcast weather. Sprinkle with a few psychic fireworks.

There goes the recipe to make you rethink of yourself wrt the universe at large.

Of course, then, invariably, you think of Zaphod Beeblebrox in the Total Perspective Vortex, and decide that all is not lost!

Simple pleasures of reading

One advantage of having someone else drive me to work, and back, has been the re-discovery of a now long lost habit - Reading. A list of books I was able to savour in the past few months:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M Pirsig)
Psmith in the City (P G Wodehouse)
Psmith Journalist (PGW)
Leave it to Psmith (PGW)
The Salmon of Doubt (Douglas Adams)
Thank You, Jeeves (PGW)
Right Ho, Jeeves (PGW)
The Code of the Woosters (PGW)
Joy in the Morning (PGW)
The Mating Season (PGW)
In Search of the Cradle of Civilization (Georg Feuerestein, Subhash Kak, David Frawley)
A Study in Scarlet (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Savouring in Progress:
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Carl Gustav Jung)
How Mind Works (Steven Pinker)
The Trouble With Physics (Lee Simon)
Glimpses of World History (Jawaharlal Nehru)

(As always, the list is here to remind me of what my short term plans are, what I have been missing in life and all that sort of crap. But historically, I have always been short of a meta-reminder to remind me to occasionally look at this reminder and get inspired)

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What's keeping me occupied:
Book: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Carl Gustav Jung)
Music: Mohabbat Turq ki Maine (Talat Mahmood, from "Do Raaha")

The Why!

There comes a time in a man's life when reality takes a swing at him and does not miss. As time flows on, fantasies of having my own very website rise from the ashes seem to be just that.

And hence ..

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