I was reading an article the other day about soul mates and how some people have soul mates that are not their s/o, or have same sex soul mates. I had always felt soul mates were your s/o, and if you married your soul mate, you’re one damn lucky kid.
Do you think we’re meant to have one soul mate in our lives? (In the sexual/relationship sense of soul mates, not a best friend soul mate, or mentor soul mate, you know what I mean.)
I’m curious as to how you all feel about soul mates. Share your stories. Do you have one? Are you with her/him? Do you have more than one? Are you looking for another one?
"There are a billion people in China. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you’re a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you. "
-A. Whitney Brown
And with that thought, may I remind you that there are over 6 billion people on this planet. If the chances of finding your soul-mate are one in a million, then technically, we each have about 6,000 potential soul mates.
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I’m curious as to how you all feel about soul mates. Do you have one? Are you with her/him? Do you have more than one? Are you looking for another one?[/quote]
You can connect in profound ways with near perfect strangers and those experiences become part of your soul. Other relationships become more permanent, involved and complicated but I am not entirely certain that that infuses them with more soul. Love, yes, but not neccesarily soul. Not neccesarily love either come to think of it. So, basically, no I do not think we are meant to have one soul mate in our lives. I think we are meant to have many.
I thought I found my soul mate, then I moved to taiwan, got married, then her head started rotating 360 degrees, her voice got very evilish, and green stuff started flying out of her mouth.
That is what I think about soul mates now. No regrets though
If I have a soul mate, his name is Josh and he lived in dallas. He is gay, we call each other Will and Grace. That is pretty much our story too (if you know the Will and Grace backstory). One of the hardest parts of moving here was leaving him.
But if your soulmate must be your so, than I would guess that I am with mine now.
However, being that I don’t even believe in the concept of a soul, i can’t rightly believe in soulmates.
If one believes in a soul, then one may also choose to beleive in the reincarnation of the soul. If so, then it seems likely that the soul will inhabit both male and female bodies over the course of time.
A few books I’ve read suggest the groups of sould reincarnate together, as family, friends, lovers, SOs. Your husband now could have been your daughter before…etc.
So, no, soul mates do not have to be lovers in the carnal sense.
JD, that is so Budhist of you. You sould EXACTLY like my brother. This is his explanation for Josh. But he also states that this is how I can be so close to my Twin brother even though we act like friends and not family. He says he thinks this is our first life related and we have been best friends over and over throughout time.
I think he nuts.
I firmly believe in soul mates, as I’ve been struck by lightening twice and have met some people in my life that I would believe to have known in another life.
I remember watching an Oprah show, when she had Gray Zukoft on there. He wrote several books about souls, which are really good. He answered the same question, saying that everyone is our soul mate. Even those who give us the hardest time. Saying that each person that comes into our lives is there to serve a purpose for the growth of our soul.(sic)
If you look at it from that pov, then you will see that the potiental to connect with someone for love, friendship or etc, expands and that the opportunity for those connections happening increases.
[quote=“SuchAFob”]JD, that is so Budhist of you. You sould EXACTLY like my brother. This is his explanation for Josh. But he also states that this is how I can be so close to my Twin brother even though we act like friends and not family. He says he thinks this is our first life related and we have been best friends over and over throughout time.
I think he nuts.[/quote]
A few of the books I read were bestsellers.
My sister and I have never lived close to each and we rarely if ever talk or correspond. Yet the once in ten years when we see each other, it’s like we never were apart. It’s spooky.
[quote=“914”]I was reading an article the other day about soul mates and how some people have soul mates that are not their s/o, or have same sex soul mates. I had always felt soul mates were your s/o, and if you married your soul mate, you’re one damn lucky kid.
Do you think we’re meant to have one soul mate in our lives? (In the sexual/relationship sense of soul mates, not a best friend soul mate, or mentor soul mate, you know what I mean.)
I’m curious as to how you all feel about soul mates. Share your stories. Do you have one? Are you with her/him? Do you have more than one? Are you looking for another one?[/quote]
I was recently thinking about posting about this but didn’t … now you’re first.
Anyhow … I must admit my s/o is not my soulmate … and everyday I suffer because she isn’t. It’s sad but true. We can’t connect in anyway … so it makes me thinking … why did we come together? :s
I really hope to meet my soulmate in the not too far future, tho. Because right now, my life sucks …
The thing about soulmates and the whole idea about that, is that sometimes you think you’ve found your soulmate and then wake up one morning to her packing her shit and saying, “I’m sorry. I don’t love you anymore. Can we still be friends?”
Then you move to Taiwan and the first two years here you make other people believe you’re their soulmate. Then the guilt overwhelms you, you grow up and FINALLY REALISE…
[quote=“bismarck”]The thing about soulmates and the whole idea about that, is that sometimes you think you’ve found your soulmate and then wake up one morning to her packing her shit and saying, “I’m sorry. I don’t love you anymore. Can we still be friends?”
Then you move to Taiwan and the first two years here you make other people believe you’re their soulmate. Then the guilt overwhelms you, you grow up and FINALLY REALISE…
So, no, soul mates do not have to be lovers in the carnal sense.[/quote]
I’ve had a “soul mate” once. She knew everything that I thought and would tell me before I even could speak it out. We could be anywhere in the city, not together, and just “feel” to go to a place (a random place)and there we would meet. Never set a time or place, we would just meet, every time. Spooky. I’d even been on a bus and just felt to get off, and there she was. Geez, I’m scaring myself now.
She’s married now and so am I, but not to each other.
If you’ve ever had someone that can feel what is on your heart you are lucky. If you’ve ever looked into someone’s eyes and seen the depths of their soul, you’ve had a wonderful moment that will never be replaced.
They don’t have to be your lover, or your spouse. It would be great if they were, but they don’t have to be and they may not be meant to be that way.
When life presents something so precious, enjoy it while you can, it may be gone as quickly as it came.
I met my first soulmate even though this person was already married. We’ve known each other for more than 3 years and although we’re in different countries, its uncanny how much we think of each other. It’s definately a special connection, there were a few times when we both were thinking of each other & just picked up the phone to call one another.
Current SO is another one right now.
For me a soulmate is someone who understands you so completely that you don’t need words to express them & he/she already know what you feel/think/want. That feeling is really unique.
