You Find it in the Strangest Places

Today, the day after Valentine's Day, I got to thinking about soul mates. Soul. Mates. A phrase literally meaning a compatible partner to the very core of your being. Someone that is completely complimentary to your every quality, who is perfect for you, and no one else. It's an attractive idea, and one that I still believe in, maybe in part due to my youth and optimism.

There are 6,900,000,000 people in the world, but in our lifetime we only interact with a minuscule percentage of them. So how are we meant to find this other half, the person who will complete us in every way?

This, in turn, lead me to thinking about fate. From the near seven billion people on the planet, we hope to be united with "the one". The mind boggling different possibilities of where to live, go to school, attend university or higher education, work, socialise, exercise, shop, even in the same city let alone the world, would surely say to a logical person that there is absolutely no chance of two people out of the whole population of ever coming together in such an interaction that would culminate in a relationship. But that's just a bit too pessimistic for my liking.

I guess we have to have a blind faith in fate and accept that someone out there is meant for us, and in turn that we are meant for that someone. Subsequently, we need to trust in the ability of a higher power to place us on a path that will allow these two halves of a whole to meet. Maybe none of the decisions that we make are really our own, and maybe everything that happens to us does happen for a reason? Maybe something that feels like the worst thing in the world at the time is actually a way of changing the direction of our chosen path to allow our feet to be drawn in the direction of a better place, with someone waiting for us there?

So keep your eyes peeled...