Soul Mates

I was watching this dating show on ABC the last two weeks. It basically chronicles various women who date men via the internet. To start a lot of these dudes are liars. They use pictures of themselves that are 10-15 years old and they lie about their age. Sadly, the women are not much better either. The women on the show come off as desperate just looking for husbands. It really makes me happy that I don’t have to go through any of that.

It did get me thinking about soul mates. Do you think there is just one perfect soul mate for you? Out of the billions and billions of people do you think there is just one? Couldn’t you have a few? Those were just questions I was thinking about and then someone asked an interesting question:

How do YOU define a soul mate?

Interesting because I never thought I needed to define a soul mate. I just thought a soul mate was just that…a soul mate. I never thought about what I would look for in “MY” soul mate.

I guess the obvious answer would be your spouse. You marry your spouse because they are your soul mate. Hmm, I don’t think so. Sadly, I would say people marry for convenience, for security, etc. Even if you were in a great and perfect marriage, have you dated at least 1 million people?? I would say you would at least have to date 1 million people in order to even have a slight shot at finding your soul mate. Even if you did, would you know it right away? Does finding your soul mate equal love at first site?

Hmm, maybe there is no such thing as a soul mate. So, people out there speak up. Do you believe in soul mates? If so, how do YOU define a soul mate?