Same here. Some say "memories" in our DNA. Would not surprise me.
What I’ve loved about genealogy is finding which traits come from which ancestors. I was raised in a risk-adverse family and always took jobs I hadn’t the faintest idea how to do. Scared my family to death. Worked in total terror and usually succeeded. Turns out a grandfather was a gold miner from Alaska down to Central America. So I’m thinking that type of mental risk taking was genetic.
I searched all along one line asking each new cousin I met if they were from the line where my joy of life originated. All said, sadly, no. Finally found the source back in 1748. Isn’t there always one ancestor that just “fits” and you connect with emotionally?
Yes, I agree. There are ‘memories in our DNA.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck hypothesized that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism
Lamarkian inheritance was out of fashion for a long time but evidence suggests he might have been correct.