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JUST A THOUGHT...
Tonight, as I luxuriated in the refreshed familiarity of my bedroom, a thought occurred to me. (You shouldn't find that surprising by the way - thoughts very often occur to me.) That in turn led to another thought - see? It can be habit-forming - which was this:
Imagine we're living in a world where technology is more advanced that it currently is. Imagine also that you're 14, and come home from school one day to find a forlorn-faced relative who informs you that your parents have just been killed in an accident. Well, obviously you'd be devastated, and to those who have actually suffered such a tragedy, I hope you won't find the following scenario too disturbing.
Now imagine that some official comes to see you one day and informs you that, rather than commit you into care, two clones of your parents will be supplied to look after you and any siblings. These clones look like your parents, talk like your parents, are capable of independent thought, and are practically indistinguishable from the real people they're cloned from. In this way, the home environment with which you are so familiar can be maintained, thereby hopefully lessening the trauma of your parents' death.
Would this work for you? It occurs to me that though this illusion of 'continuance' might be comforting to a degree, every so often you'd be reminded that, although these replacements fulfilled the role that your real parents had once served, they were mere duplicates, replicas, stand-ins - fakes even. Sure, it would be great to have your life continue as before, but this couple were not the ones who had brought you into the world, looked after you, dried your tears as a child, etc., etc., - they were merely imitations.
Of course, the same scenario can be imagined for spouses and children, siblings and pets, but is this concept one that you feel drawn to, or do you reject it completely out of hand as something you'd never entertain if given the choice? I must confess that the idea intrigues me, though I don't know if I'd go for such a scenario were it within the realms of possibility.
What gave rise to this bizarre idea? Well, as I said, tonight, as I luxuriated in the refreshed familiarity of my bedroom, a thought occurred to me, which was this:
As regular readers will be aware, I've recently been replacing posters, pin-ups, pages and pictures with newer duplicates. The ones that now adorn my bedroom walls may appear the same as those they replaced, but they aren't the ones upon which I've daily gazed over the last 35-40 years of my life - they merely look like them (though newer, brighter, cleaner and whiter).
There's something comforting about retaining things that have accompanied you through a significant period of your life's journey; they have silently seen and shared your joys and sorrows, heartaches and hopes, like old friends that have always been there for you. It suddenly struck me tonight that these pictorial doppelgangers don't share the lenghty history of their predecessors - they only have the same ap-pearance, though not the same 'experience'.
I feel very guilty. Though it's nice to have my room looking more colourful and less aged, I know that I'd never have replaced my parents with newer, younger duplicates when they began to look old and faded, so now wonder why I did so with my posters and pin-ups. True, it's not an entirely equivalent comparison, but I still can't help but wonder at my heartlessness in dispensing with those loyal pictorial companions, many of which have accompanied me through nearly two-thirds of my life. Like I said - I feel very guilty.
H'mm. I think perhaps I shouldn't think so much. It hurts.
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