Repeats....

Because I live in a town that is so transient, I get to meet a lot of new people every year. I've recently started to notice that there are many duplicates. Every year it seems that someone I knew once has a "twin" move in. I'm disappointed if the look-a-like is someone I wasn't too fond of previously, but am excited if it happens to be someone I really enjoyed. Sad that I let my previous relationships dictate how I approach this new person. This year the look-a-like happens to be someone I really had a good time with. Unfortunately, I need to remind myself that this is an entirely different person altogether, and no hairstyle, or accent makes this new person the original. I hold the look-a-likes to some sort of standard set previously, and when that standard isn't quite met I find myself a tad bit disappointed. Unless the look-a-like turns out better than the original. This happened one year. It happened to be a repeat of an unpleasant person. I guarded myself around the look-a-like until I discovered she was much more fun than the original. I chastised myself for having pre-judged her. There is also the case where the original and look-a-like come from identical personality-quirk-molds. This is just a wierd thing to encounter. But it has been encountered before. After all these years I'm still looking for the Pam or Aimee repeat, but have never found them. Some people are just one-of-a-kind.