Do you believe you have a Soulmate ( Archived) (23)

A brief history of soulmates

The Greek philosopher Plato wrote that humans once had four arms, four legs and two faces. He explained that Zeus split us in half as a punishment for our pride, and we were destined to walk the Earth searching for our other half.

Our understanding of love and relationships might have evolved since 385 BCE, when Plato penned Symposium, but the idea of having an ‘other half’ still endures for many, and has lasted across numerous cultures throughout history. Some Hindu traditions hold the idea that people have a karmic connection with certain souls; in Yiddish, there is a term for an ideal or predestined marriage partner – your ‘bashert’ – which loosely translates to destiny. Thirteenth-century Persian poet and Islamic scholar Rumi posed the idea that lovers do not finally meet, but that they are somehow in each other all along. And from Romeo and Juliet to Heathcliff and Cathy, Western literature is replete with examples of lovers who were meant to be together.

Does it make sense, I firmly believe in soulmates.

I'm sure many people on CS have had this feeling that they have known their soulmates, maybe in another life.
Are you one of the chosen who recognises this sort of love, or what do you put it down to?

Thanks for your excellent reply,
I find I have empathy which works as a sort of radar and I seem to sense what people are feeling about me, it sometimes works against me by alerting another persons empathy sometimes with explosive results.
But I have had a similar feeling to yours twice, once we were both convinced we must have been related in another place or time, we were so very empathic to each other.

Even finishing each others sentences.

By the way, I feel positive empathy for you

yeh I get your vibes Circlip. but you come up as a buxom blonde bombshell,

Note too self, get empathy serviced

Sort of. I don't think the universe owes me a lover, I don't live like finding my soulmate is going to happen to me, and yet i know that the one I love most will not be perfect. They'll not be what I thought, wanted and planned for. I do believe that love finds you when you're not looking for it and when that person is not even necessarily what you're looking for. So much of ourself and the other are a mystery, love cannot succeed with plan.

Christ, Chesney, you have more romance in you than most.

If love comes when you are not looking, I should be due a visit. I feel a song coming on, a good old oldie" When love comes in and takes you for a spin, "