Soulmates

When I read for the first time

That there can more than one soulmate for a person,

I was scandalized! It was too much for my romantic sensibilities to handle.

I believed in the perfect fairytale.

You meet your soulmate

You marry them and live happily ever after!

I've met a few of my soulmates in my life.

Yes that's a plural meaning there can be more than one.

Meeting a soulmate is a beautiful experience.

You sort of just connect without introduction

You don't need words to communicate.

You tell each other things that your best friends don't know about

Not because you want to

But because you can't help but tell them.

It's almost a compulsion.

How do you know when you meet a soulmate?

Well, it's cliched but you just know!

Do all soulmate relationships end happily?

No. Sometimes the soulmate comes along

To help you discover a part of you

You did not even know existed.

They make you feel alive

They amplify all your emotions

And make you vulnerable.

And then it's possible that

Destiny never meant for you to be together

And you go your separate ways.

You were just meant to meet each other

At that point in life when you needed to teach each other something.

Once the lesson is learnt, you come out of it

Knowing more about yourself.

Is it easy to let go of a soulmate connection?

No. I don't think you can ever let go of it completely.

When you meet again, it'll be like time stands still

And you don't remember the hurts inflicted on you

By that person

Even if you'd sworn revenge at the time they broke you.

You'll never be able to understand it,

Explain or rationalize it to yourself.

They make complete fools of you and

Yet you find yourself making excuses for them.

The experiences in my life

Have taught me

That the soulmate connection does not matter

As much as someone who can stick it out with me,

Through sickness and health, through wealth and poverty,

Through life and death.

I don't need a soulmate to hurt me

Or make life difficult for me

I do that very well for myself thanks!

I need someone who I can count on

Who I trust with my life.

I'd trade an earthy but strong and stable connection

Over a fantastic but hurtful soulmate connection anyday.

Archie

12 Aug, 2011