I’m pretty certain this is the first book I’ve read this year. Nope, actually second after reading The 100 Mile Diet. I just finished reading Eat, Pray, Love and its definitely worth reading. To sum it up, its the author’s personal story of spiritual growth during a year of travels to Italy, India and Indonesia. Her writing makes this a really fast read, and parts of it made me laugh out loud, others that made me think, and others that simply touched my heart.
I copied down a few lines from the book here and there, but one especially sticks out in mind.
This is when she is getting over losing someone she considered her soulmate. Richard from Texas says:
“He probably was [your soul mate]. Your problem is you don’t understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that’s holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah, too painful.”
I thought about this, and came to this conclusion. I believe that a soulmate is a perfect fit, but how perfect is that fit if individually we’re not balanced? Individually, and as a planet, we are not balanced. Look around you and you see, the degree of the imbalance. In the U.S, I believe they say that 80-90% of the wealth is shared by 10 or 20% of the population? And even though I’ve grown up in a city all my life and I love city life, the majority of the population is gathered and bunched up in such a small areas relative to the size of the country. The planet is going through some crazy weather patterns, and maybe this is indicative of the people trying to balance themselves individually, such as the way the planet is also trying to as well. But, heck, what do I know?
Anyway, so what happens when an imbalanced person is attracted to another inbalanced individual? The laws of attraction says opposites attract, so it would only make sense that the person we attract and be attracted to would be our opposite. So, as a unit the two people balance each other out. In this way, it makes sense to me that it would be too painful to be with your soulmate forever, because you’d have to be constantly living in a state of imbalance to be together. Pretty painful, and doesn’t sound like the real soulmate.
Maybe we need to redefine the word soulmate. A soulmate to me is somebodysoul that I was meant to spend eternity with, in this lifetime, in some other time, space or dimension. It would be the soul of the individual that would keep pulling us together, even if we were worlds apart. As long as I were conscious, whether conscious on this planet as human, or as some microbe, I’d still feel the pull to be with that one soul. And once we were to find each other, nothing would be able to separate us.
Don’t they have some sorta thing in chemistry denoting this? Where one element on its own is very unstable, but when bonded to another it creates such a strong bond that even if other elements came along and tried crashing the party, it wouldn’t have a chance. Hmmm… that would be interesting to look up…
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