Traveling Desires
Am thinking for quite some time, if there is a far far remote possibility that the desires and wishes from our fathers and forefathers may have the ability to travel through the genes and are still alive some where in a dark hidden corner of our DNA code? Off-course there is alot of instinctive behavior that we humans do instinctively, like craving for eating, copulating, survival stuff but i am not talking about that and I am also not talking about the desires that the parents associate with their sons and and daughters.I am talking about the desires that one wishes for him self, I am talking about all the free floating desires that my father and forefathers have wished to have for themselves;the ones that are not connected to any necessities in life; the ones which gives purpose and meaning to one’s own existence, one’s own identity, one’s own life signature.
Like I always fantasize my father’s world trip , which ended up half the world away, some where in the blue waters of Caribbean, i wonder if he may have thought of going even beyond, the whole way, and that specific desire somehow traveled and transmuted into some hidden corners of my genes, i wonder if his father had a similar dream. I wonder if my grandfather, wanted to be a globe trotter. I wonder if that is why i am in Africa…..
(I wish if I can know all about those hidden corners)
One Comment
Rahat
Great questions on a topic that intrigues me a lot. There is indeed scientific evidence of “transgenerational epigenetic inheritance” present proving that the environment can affect an individual’s genetics, which can in turn be passed on. This is mostly explored for traumatic memories that are now believed to last for as long as seven generations. Just like traumatic memories, other thought we are consciously or subconsciously submerged in day in and day out, actually serve as a more powerful epigenetic than other environmental factors. There are some fascinating animal studies which found how DNA changes with experiences even if those experiences were not real but perceived. Similarly in humans there are some regressional techniques which bring out the sleeping memories from generations old past experiences.