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The question of whether you see your own Shadow in your kids is worth some pondering? I suppose most people ponder this on occasion and for some the answer is easy. Shadows are reflections of ones self. Exact duplicates in some ways. On the other hand perhaps shadows are nothing at all like what they reflect but instead just a very similar outside image. Somewhere between duplicate and and just an outside reflective reminder may be the answer to what this Shadow idea is all about.

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Maybe a more relevant question to ask would be whether the kids see themselves in the Shadow or even in the guy behind the camera? I can answer the question as to whether I see myself in my own Dad much easier than I can speculate as to whether my kids are "inside" similar to myself. Truth is I see a lot of myself in my perception of my Dad but not enough to really lead me to believe that were more the same than different. Understanding our sameness is easier than understanding our difference.

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Agency is a word that might be a way of understanding differences. When we chose to be like someone we use agency and in that our likeness is chosen.

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The older I get the more I see things in my own parents to chose to be like, "I think".