This I Believe

The Soul of My Beliefs

I believe in soulmates. I believe the soul is a very complicated aspect of life today. Souls live for much longer than a human lifetime and are intertwined with each other forever. I think souls live in different bodies for the equivalent of a lifetime of that animal. Before my soul may have lived in a horse, or a butterfly, and before that another human. Some souls are new while others are old. The soul is a very mysterious concept, which no one totally understands. I think of the soul as the unifying idea of all life and at the same time the most mysterious.

Albert Einstein once said, “God does not play dice with the universe.” By this, he meant that there is an order to the universe and that randomness is not the overarching principle that guides our actions and I agree with him. One of the concepts that I believe is not random is that two souls are meant to interact as soulmates and that monogamous pairings of human beings are predestined. Social structures and geographic distance can create great obstacles to these pairings, but predestination is the most powerful force in the universe.

I believe that, even though obstacles can separate two souls, eventually their paths will coincide. For instance, I was born in Massachusetts and my soulmate was born in Florida. When I was six years old, by chance, I started to ride horses. On my 12th birthday, I began to travel to Florida for the winters in order to show in the warm weather. At age 18, I deferred acceptance for one year from the University of Richmond so that I could mature. In order to attain this higher level of maturity I got a job and I ended up meeting someone there I believe is one of my soulmates.

Everything had to happen perfectly for me to be able to meet him. The chain of events in my life fell into place exactly so that our souls’ paths would meet. I think we are meant for one another. It seems as though every day I learn something new that we have in common, although at the same time I get a sneaking suspicion that I already knew it. These feelings make me believe some souls are linked so they must come together at some point in time.

I believe there are people who are meant to find one another because the souls within them are connected. I think souls connect differently than humans recognize because it is their destiny to be together. I believe certain events in our lives happen so the soulmates within us can meet. I believe I have met my soulmate in the form of a person whose thoughts synthesize with mine in a way that could not be accidental; my thoughts and his mesh too perfectly. I am similarly connected with others, some of whom I may not have met yet or will not meet in this lifetime.