Interested in yalls thoughts on heredity. Personal experiences and or observations..........not scientific conjecture, but personal observations on how heredity effects your being, regardless examples from upbringing.
I will share my experience.
My father, (more specifically to man who raised me) was not my biological father. I did not come to know this until after his death. A very impactful event for sure. I have always been very observant, dangerously so, and noticed as i got "older" that there were many differences between me and him.....in look, physicality, opinions, etc. He was the first executive casino host in Las Vegas, knowing many mobsters and affiliates, to include Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Rosenthal , and Tony Spilotro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Spilotro . If you have seen the movie "Casino", you see a mirror image of my Father and Mother, and how I grew up. It was because of this, at a young age, needless to say, I saw a bunch of stuff, ""bad stuff. But I never followed the lifestyle........somewhat regretfully, and somewhat not. And I am not getting into my mothers side of the family....that much, but suffice to say that my grandmother was a tough as nails woman, a former prostitute from WV, and my "grandfather" was her pimp..............again terrible examples.
There was, to me, a great facination with military service. My father was an AirForce vet, but my fascination was with "direct action" units, combat arms, infantry, special operations etc. I joined in the Army. Infantry recruit, airborne, scouts, MI, graduate of OTC (https://www.americanspecialops.com/delta-force/selection/), but not a selectee due to unknown reason (which is common for someone to pass selection, but not be selected by a team). Anyway, none of these things were what my father had any interest in, and neither did my mother. Full 180 from what they thought, and what I was shown.
I mentioned earlier I found out that my dad was not my biological dad..........well in the same conversation, I was given insight to my biological dad, his dad, and my mother's real dad, (which was not know I understood it to be.) My biological father was a Frogman, or what is now called a SEAL, and his father was an officer in the Russian army sometime in the 40s. My biological grandfather was an officer in the OSS before and during WW2.
So, with all my upbringing, an all its examples, the drugs, the debauchery, the crime........ I ended up follow none of them, mostly (though I could have easily) instead following a closely matched path, to my biological father and grandfather(s). Again all unbeknownst to me until after the fact.
I could go on, as many here probably could, but just giving an insight to my opinion on the power of heredity, over examples in upbringing, that molds a person into being what they ultimately become. Heredity can be very powerful.
I will share my experience.
My father, (more specifically to man who raised me) was not my biological father. I did not come to know this until after his death. A very impactful event for sure. I have always been very observant, dangerously so, and noticed as i got "older" that there were many differences between me and him.....in look, physicality, opinions, etc. He was the first executive casino host in Las Vegas, knowing many mobsters and affiliates, to include Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Rosenthal , and Tony Spilotro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Spilotro . If you have seen the movie "Casino", you see a mirror image of my Father and Mother, and how I grew up. It was because of this, at a young age, needless to say, I saw a bunch of stuff, ""bad stuff. But I never followed the lifestyle........somewhat regretfully, and somewhat not. And I am not getting into my mothers side of the family....that much, but suffice to say that my grandmother was a tough as nails woman, a former prostitute from WV, and my "grandfather" was her pimp..............again terrible examples.
There was, to me, a great facination with military service. My father was an AirForce vet, but my fascination was with "direct action" units, combat arms, infantry, special operations etc. I joined in the Army. Infantry recruit, airborne, scouts, MI, graduate of OTC (https://www.americanspecialops.com/delta-force/selection/), but not a selectee due to unknown reason (which is common for someone to pass selection, but not be selected by a team). Anyway, none of these things were what my father had any interest in, and neither did my mother. Full 180 from what they thought, and what I was shown.
I mentioned earlier I found out that my dad was not my biological dad..........well in the same conversation, I was given insight to my biological dad, his dad, and my mother's real dad, (which was not know I understood it to be.) My biological father was a Frogman, or what is now called a SEAL, and his father was an officer in the Russian army sometime in the 40s. My biological grandfather was an officer in the OSS before and during WW2.
So, with all my upbringing, an all its examples, the drugs, the debauchery, the crime........ I ended up follow none of them, mostly (though I could have easily) instead following a closely matched path, to my biological father and grandfather(s). Again all unbeknownst to me until after the fact.
I could go on, as many here probably could, but just giving an insight to my opinion on the power of heredity, over examples in upbringing, that molds a person into being what they ultimately become. Heredity can be very powerful.
