Hallmark Moment

Hi All,
I've been checking in on the Lifetime folks lately and they've had some great discussions going about soulmates and what draws you to a person. I chimed in with my stubborn idea that there is only one soulmate per person and there was a lot of opposition to that idea. I'm going by the definitions I grew up understanding, of course. Odd how we look at our parents as the idea of what a relationship is supposed to be. Maybe we don't ALL do that, but I did, anyway. They spoiled me of course because they're that couple that have never been with anyone else and have been married for 45 years. And are as compatible as can be. Will I find such a thing? Lord knows! So I altered my definition a little to admit that, sure, we all might have more than one person we feel connected to for a time. We all generally have more than one close friend, after all. And people have lots of serious relationships. Just because they did not work out, does that mean they were any less valid?
I tend to cling to the Romantic Ideal. Like, I'm going to find that brilliant, hilarious, sensitive guy I seek. Sure I will! In a gay bar, I was once told. haha I watch too many movies, and read too many fairy tales, I admit. I'd like it if life could be the way I imagine it. Damn the imagination! ha ha I finished reading Jane Eyre, by the way. Your definition of soulmate is right there, in that book. This is one of my favorite passages:

"I hold myself supremely blest--blest beyond what language can express;
because I am my husband's life as fully is he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of my Edward's society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do of the pulsation of the heart that beats in our separate bosoms; consequently, we are ever together. To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character--perfect concord is the result."

I hope we all find perfect concord somewhere, at sometime in our lives.
It seems like it's a very nice thing. :)

Thoughts on concord
1) I like Concord grapes, for sure!
2) Well, who wants to be at odds? Other than odd couples.
3) Harmony is nice. So is melody. Those 'American Idol' lads seem to forget this at times.
4) I'm not sure I want to be TOO connected to people. People are nuts, after all.
5) Who am I kidding? Edward, I'm still looking for you!

Have a great day!