Soul Mates?

I always found it funny when I heard the phrase ‘soul mates’, I mean what is that? (If you have the answer, please feel free to comment! Again-this is my opinion, not wrong or right, just mine)

There is no human way possible that one person in the world can provide everything for you to make you feel ‘complete’ (if that’s even possible, which is another discussion all together) It’s like the term ‘best friend’ or ‘bff’ as they now term it on the world wide web. So if you call someone your best friend that means that all your other friends are 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th and 50^th best, I’m not sure why we try to use this hierarchy to rank those closest to us, it seems a little dumb to me.

Just think about it, for those of you who may be married or in a committed relationship, how many times do you feel like your partner just doesn’t get it, or isn’t what you need at a certain moment in time? It’s not that you don’t love them, or have a perfectly functioning and loving relationship, it’s just that they can’t be your husband/wife, only friend, mother, father, brother, sister and daughter! It’s humanely IMPOSSIBLE. And because they can’t be all these people, they have no way of providing all the facets that make up you as a person.

What I mean is… I feel that our environment (tv shows, reality shows showing the ‘happily ever after’) are drilling it into our heads that we will one day find our ‘everything’, when in reality, NO ONE can be your everything.

I find so much joy from so many different types of people, and people at different stages in their lives. For a while there, I was going along the road of ‘one true soul mate’, when in fact, those types of relationships bring out the worst in me. For example, the other day I went to the movies with two 13 year old girls, it was one of the most satisfying and fun Friday nights I’ve had in a long time! For those few hours, I felt like they were my ‘soul mates’, they shared stories about their school and the ‘drama’ from their lives, while I just listened, laughed and shared the little wisdom I had from my teenager days. It was amazing because I forgot what it was like to be that age, and it was a reminder of how I had grown so much since that time. Without that movie night, I would never have been able to get to that place, to pat myself on the back for accomplishing the things I have since I was 13. I’d like to think that I shared a bit of joy with them as well, a bit of support they may not get everywhere else. You get my drift? All I’m saying is that I’m realizing that I’m the type of person that feeds off others peoples joys & triumphs. And to me-that’s what makes up your SOUL. So…it is going to be my first assignment, to spend the next month involving myself with people & things that I normally wouldn’t, just to see what happens J I have a feeling that its gonna be good-or maybe even GREAT!