November 9, 2010
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Doppelgangers
One of the perhaps most annoying experiences in life is to meet someone who is just like you in many ways and discover that you absolutely can’t stand this person. It’s probably pretty rare in real life but much more frequent online because you are exposed to such a large variety of people.
Usually the reasons you can’t stand this person are one or more of two. Either you find that this person seems to be BETTER at being you than you are which is annoying. OR you find this person sort of flaunts many of the characteristics of yourself that seem to be to you to be your biggest flaws, sometimes flaws that you weren’t even aware of until you saw them displayed in someone else. Or both.
It’s SUCH an annoying experience that I generally tend to inevitably forget all about it up and until the moment where it happens AGAIN and I find it even MORE annoying than I did the last time.
So there’s only one rational thing to do about it. You, obviously have to hunt down your doppelganger and engage in a fight to the death! Hopefully it will be some kind of mental contest or a battle of wills if you, like me, aren’t exactly the most proficient in hand to hand combat.
Once you are victorious you will absorb your doppelganger into yourself and become one entity with you in control. And on top of that you get all of your doppelganger’s stuff! And you can pick and choose the best amongst it and leave behind any of the junk you don’t want. So you get his televison, his car, his friends, his education, his playstation. What? What if he doesn’t HAVE a playstation? IMPOSSIBLE! No Doppelganger of mine would be lacking in the video gaming department!
Of course doing all that is very very troublesome and might not be worth the effort. So I guess instead you can just try to stop being such a dick and act more like you wish that doppelganger person would act.
But honestly the battle to the death sounds a lot more fun to me.
