Is it normal to wonder about who you would've been if you hadn't been you?

I've always wondered how it would've felt and like who I would've been and if I would've ever known if I was me now.

Is It Normal?
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  • How am I not myself?

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  • I know exactly who I would've been.
    Francis Treebacon.

    Thank god I'm me.

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    • Which deity are you thanking, and why are you thanking them?

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      • Just an expression dude, not meant in a literal sense.

        If I was to0 thank a diety though it would be the diety of green peas and carrots, with several cups of water a day and freshly squeezed fruit and vegie juice! I have already lost 3kg in just under 3 weeks!

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        • So, is it the deity Osiris that you are thanking then?

          Are you an Egyptian or have Egyptian ancestry, by any chance?

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris

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          • I do actually. My grandpa worked on the Suez Canal.

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            • The Suez Canal was (and is) one of the great engineering projects of the modern era. But did you know that during the Roman Empire (of which Egypt was a province of, at the time), this Civilization had also constructed a canal in the proximate location of the Suez Canal, thus linking the River Nile and Red Sea for maritime traffic?
              Perhaps your thirtieth (or so) great grandfather worked on that ancient project?

              Please note: The ancient canals (there were earlier ones as well) were typically routed from the River Nile to the Red Sea near Suez, not from the present-day location of Port Said on the Mediterranean coast.

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            • I thought I just explained to you that it was a figure of speech and not meant to be taken literally. Do you know what I mean? I'm not actually thanking anyone, I'm just thankful in general. That's all I meant by the term.

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  • You'd still be you.

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  • You would someone else.

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  • Wow,you just fucked my mind,thanks...

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  • Perhaps you aren't really you at all. Perhaps you are dreaming that the you you think you are is the real you, but since you really know that it's not you, then you have these doubts about being you.

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  • Deep.

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  • If you were not you, then you would be another person.

    It was simply random luck that your mother's ovum and your father's spermatozoon that fertilized the female gamete, both of which contributed to you becoming you, happened in an event that eventually produced you. Any incongruities in the timeline of this series of events, most certainly would have produced a different you, or none at all.

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  • This might be kind of douchey but i always wondered why i was born into such a good life compared to others.. how i could be so lucky to be where i am right now and others not, what makes me so special, nothing, so why is it like this, i am very grateful though.. then its start to feel like those other people can't even be real.. and then it starts getting freaky, way to philosophical or something

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  • Definitely, and I'm sure we wouldn't even think about the person we were now, if we were in another life.

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  • I've often thought about it myself, so you are not alone there.

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  • You would be nobody.

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