What is a soul mate?
Soul mates
I have thought for decades how miserably depressing it is to think that the notion of "soul mates" means that out of all the ever-increasing billions on the planet there is one perfect soul to match with; that there is one perfect partner jigsaw piece in all the world. I don't like those odds.
But if you reject that notion, and instead take it that there are many, many, many different matching pieces throughout a changing life, it also follows that as you change as a person so will your matching piece(s).
It seems so unnecessarily tragic to mourn never having met "the one", or worse having met and lost them again. Instead we should celebrate when we find the ones that walk the path with us when they do. Some may stay with us throughout the rest of life. Some may stay within reach, never quite walking the same path but staying close. Some are there for a while and then gone for evermore. Some, even, may walk our path repeatedly, and then find their own at other times. Just be glad that they do, when they do.
