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Everybody’s working so hard to drive a stake through the concept of ‘soul mate’, I just can’t resist mucking things up a little. I have a soul mate.
I didn’t have to work to find him. I didn’t have to enlist anyone’s help to find him. I just looked up one day and there he was. And Johnalive, I did indeed feel a magic click that told me that this so-and-so was Mr. Right. And that click really was something more all encompassing and mysterious than mere physical attraction. We made a date within minutes, and we’ve been together ever since. Call it an inane notion if you want, call it an uninformed superstition, it happens. Maybe it happens because you’re still willing to believe in inane notions and uninformed superstitions. The fact that your current partner breaks the mold, etc… by being mature and realistic, which you admire, well maybe… just maybe… this person is your soul mate.
I do think we all make a mistake when we think that a soul mate must embody all the perfect, angel-like qualities of a super hero. That surely wouldn’t be a mate to my soul. A soul mate would complement my soul, not exceed it.
And did you ever notice how the ideas you like are ‘ideas’ and the ideas you don’t like are ‘notions’?
