Are they real? Or are they nothing more than romantic shadows cast by wistful, heartbroken poets?
If they're real, are they born or made? Can you become another person’s soulmate by focusing time and energy on the process, or are you at the mercy of fate and fortune?
Do you know you’ve found a soulmate because of what you feel, or because of what you’ve committed yourself to? Is it possible to be with your soulmate and not realize it?
Do questions like this even matter?
(This entry kept under 100 words, for Ptiza’s sake.)
5 comments:
I think the question is irrelevant. I think it is based on feelings. I think what matters is what you commit yourself to. It's unfair to the institution of marriage and setting someone up for internal discontent and heartache to think about the possibility that a spouse isn't a soulmate.
Maybe I should tell you face to face, but I am weary of THAT particular question being in your head. Yeah, I know what you've chosen and it's right. I just have to wonder if that question would be present at all if things had gone differently in our first couple of years. Because it wasn't a particularly hard thing before then for you to feel loving.
That question, to me, emphasizes the fact that you have no affection or tenderness for me now, and haven't for a long time and it hurts. Sigh.
And I'm angry that you would write about that question after yesterday. Because I would think that after a day that seemed(to me) like a good day, the question would be less prevalent in your mind. Or did I just have a nice day with a mask?
I honestly don't buy into that soulmate shit. I bought into it once and I found out how shitty of a philosophy it is. I may be totally wrong, but I think our "soulmate" is the soul we choose to marry. I think there are certain people that click on certain aspects like same interests, passions, etc. but that don’t make them a soulmate. That just makes them another human with my same interests in life. My husband and I are almost 100% opposite, but I believe when I chose to marry him he became my soulmate.
I have never been the pie in the sky ga ga romantic type.Once you say 'I do'..that IS your soul mate. For me to sit around allowing my thoughts to flit about from one 'soulish''might that have been the one...oh maybe he's the one'thought to another is for me a sin.My husband and I have been through some seasons where I absolutly despised him..wanted out...had no 'feelings'for him..but that was too darn stinking bad. I stayed because I feared displeasing God more by breaking a covenant than I wanted out. So here we are today, years later...we still are polar opposites on many things...but by staying ( and I'm sure he wanted out also) and hashing through it, we are not only becoming soulmates by law but also more and more in our hearts.
So ,no, this isn't a valid question.
Gee steve I always counted on you having a brain....but that was a no brainer/dumb entry to post.
maybe that dumb hard hat cooked your brains?
I was always a cheater. Never could stay with someone for even six months before I started yearning for greener pastures.
Then I got married to someone I hadn't even known in person (unless you count online in person) and that all disappeared. So was it because we're married, like Dianne said? Or was it because we were soulmates and just knew that we wouldn't be roaming, from the start?
(This response kept under 100 words, for my sake.)
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