I never gave much thought to the purpose of a soulmate in my earlier years. Perhaps, I was focusing too much on being at the next place instead of the place where I currently was.

I’ve always been excited about the future. Imagining what will happen and how great things will be. I think this can be attributed to my personality as a “starter.” I believe there are three types of people in life: starters, middle-people and finishers.

Over the years, I have clearly learned that I am a starter. It goes to explain why I like writing. I love the concept of taking something out of nothing and solidifying it. It explains why I am always interested in who wrote a song or play, rather than the performers who are singing and acting. Also, why when I used to play video games, I would get so frustrated when my character died for the first time.

You see, being a starter has it’s advantages, such as having visions and creativity. But it has cons as well, such as not completing a project to its fullest or getting too comfortable when things are going well.

This is why starters need middle-people and finishers. Vice Versa.

And this is what got me contemplating about soulmates, and the purpose of having one. So what is a soulmate? Is it a person who will be with you beyond eternity? Someone who’s got an answer to all your problems? I think the truth of the matter is that no one really knows what a soulmate is, they just know who it is.

The someone in their lives they could not live without. Not just romantically or emotionally, but physically as well. People actually die not long after their soulmate passes. They don’t teach that in medical books.

I don’t have the answer. It would probably be presumptuous of me to assume I knew it. After all, never really had a soulmate, never really thought I needed one. But I’ve come to realize that everyone needs one.

Whether it’s your lover, group of friends, family. We’re only on this earth for a short while. Right? And all the people who are in our lives are there for a reason, right? So you got to do what you got to do to make the most out of it, because we only got one shot at life.

Maybe, I’ve come to figure out that we only got one shot, and we should take it with someone by our side, not alone.