Prompt #6

Soul mates are a funny thing, especially when you pick apart the word into two and picture in your mind what they would mean, or do for that mater. But, excusing my indiosicrocy of dissecting words into pieces, I would like to share with you this. I believe, in my immature yet innate sense, that ONE soul mate does not exist. Perhaps there are people on this earth (As Richard from Texas explains) that enter our lives, show us what we're missing, smack our doubts away, kill our insecurities, and then leave us alone to fight our own battles. But I think is is even simpler. Maybe our soul mates are the people we live for, like our children or loved ones. Maybe our soul mates are those who teach us how to grow and teach us how to live. Maybe they are un-announced and unrecognized, like the man who made your latte this morning, or the person who held the door, the woman that called you sweetie, the child that smiled in response to yours. Or maybe, just maybe, they are a romantic partner, a boyfriend, a girlfriend, wife, husband, first kiss, first love, first what ever else. Maybe, we are our own soul mates who can mirror our own weaknesses and force ourselves to act upon a healing melody. Richard mentions that a soul mate acts as a mirror to show everything that is holding one back from experiencing something special. In Elizabeth Gilbert's case, her soul mate was David, who was only in her life to teach her to go live her life, not stay back and wait for results. David was present to force Elizabeth Gilbert out of her marriage and onto a plane of self discovery, both literally, and figuratively speaking. Personally, I believe that everything happens for a reason. People fly in and out of my life like an array of sparrows, some with a negative agenda and some with real and pure intention and let me tell you something, some of those sparrows can be real tough to deal with. However, I think that each person that has flown into my life for what ever reason has had a purpose to teach me something new, to make me hunt for change or inspiration and unlock the door to the walls that hold me back in whatever I may believe in. But as I think deeper and deeper into the definition of a soul mate, I come to realize that there is no single one interpretation. I believe that there are several soul mates for several occasions and several beings. Each soul is different, but we all know that and each soul is pure, and again we all know that, but does any one soul match, or mate, with another?