This post is brought to you by the letter W for Wine (probably too much of it) and the number 4 for how many too much.Do you have a soulmate? What are your actual thoughts on what a soulmate is?
Is it someone who is in your life for a long extended period?
Is it someone who no matter how long or short they were in your life just had a profound impact on your life?
Is it someone who you are in love with and fall into a marital type relationship?
Is it someone who through life and death you still have a connection to?
Does your soulmate have to be of the opposite sex?
This is for you people out there that I see reading who don't always comment too.. I see you so leave a comment let me know you what you think.
In loving memory of Pansy Boy.
1964-2009
1964-2009
You know my answer to this! Johnny walker...
ReplyDeleteSoulmate.. I really am not sure anymore. My thought and perception of a soulmate is someone who thinks along the same plane and works with and around me with an ease that there isn't much thought to it. Someone who doesn't take you on the roller coaster of emotions but brings a true joy to your world but when they do hurt you it's a devastating one. If that is the case than that would be sir hineyhole so NO either I don't believe in soulmates because I don't want to be single forever (it's nice at the moment but I don't want it to always be this way!) or we have more than one :)
ReplyDeleteSoulmate is a person who is perfectly suited to another in temperament. Or a person who strongly resembles another in attitudes or beliefs . Makes no mention of having to be the opposite sex or the length of knowing or even that there is only one.
ReplyDeleteSo that's that.
LHK
I think Soulmate is a very romanticized ideal. I have loved many, considered our connections pure, and hope to have more;) And Pansy Boy was gone wayyy too soon....
ReplyDeleteDamn, how did you know I was here? Did my dark glasses slip?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure there are many ways of describing a soulmate, but they always seem a bit yucky... I am amazingly lucky in that I have two... I'm married to one, and my closest friend is the other. We each complement and complete the other.
Do you have a soulmate? What are your actual thoughts on what a soulmate is? I am not sure he's my soulmate but ToonMan is my best friend and lover and husband ... I suppose a soulmate is a term soap operas coined cause thats where I heard it first ... I think it means people who are joined deeply by something they share.
ReplyDeleteIs it someone who is in your life for a long extended period? I dont think time is a qualifier.
Is it someone who no matter how long or short they were in your life just had a profound impact on your life? I think this is more like it.
Is it someone who you are in love with and fall into a marital type relationship? I do not think its an either or thing .. I think it can be both or neither ..
Is it someone who through life and death you still have a connection to? Absolutely.
Does your soulmate have to be of the opposite sex? No. Its not about gender its about a connection.....
According to Plato, humans originally consisted of four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them all in half, condemning them to spend their lives searching for the other half to complete them. While I don't think I need anyone else to complete me (I'm completely crazy all on my own) I do think there are people out there who you share a strong bond with. Sometimes it's romantically, sometimes it's totally platonic and it can be either gender. I find it funny you bring this up right now... recently got back in touch with a very old very dear friend and it's been an interesting 3 weeks. Thanks for provoking more thought ;)
ReplyDeleteI used to have very strong opinions on this topic (as in yes, of course they exist), but now I'm just jaded. There are people we will always feel a strong connection to, no matter what. Whether it's reciprocated or whether it can withstand the test of time and/or marriage is another story.
ReplyDeleteVery good question, though...
I used to totally think my only soul mate was my husband. We click, we get each other, he fit together - it just works. Until I met one of the first friends I made as an adult ( you know opposed to the younger years relationships and friends that were always "just there"?) and I will have to tell you, if she and I are not soul mates I don't know what it is. I can now not imagine my days without her, she supports me and "gets" me in a way no one else does and she just feels like a part of me. seriously if I believed in it, I think we would have been sisters in a previous life.
ReplyDeleteI'm in agreement with the above comments. Now that I look back on my marriage and have gotten as old as he was when we were married, I think the ex is about as close as I've gotten. I'm one to only have a couple really close friends. I do wish one would walk up and knock on my door though... LOL
ReplyDeleteHmmm...I think maybe we don't always realize the moment a soulmate walks in or out of our lives...and maybe we are just lucky to spend a little time with them. I don't think there is just one out there, and I don't think a soulmate has to be of the same sex or your heart throb. Ok, AM, you're pulling me out of my blog-blues and maybe I'll write again.
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