Soulmates? 

So I always found the concept of soulmates boring. I mean what's the difference between a true love and a soulmate. One is for sex and the other is sex + happiness?

This was a little wierd for me for I heard others telling me that they would find their dream man or the girl of their dreams. From the description that my friends gave me I always found it to be similar to an understanding lover. But then they said soulmates need not always be lovers. They can be best friends too. 

However my friend who shared this concept with me said that because his so called "soulmate" did not want to be his lover because they were not sexually compatible(code for "you are ugly") and that they were better off being friends. I always suspected it as a way of taking advantage of someone by calling them friends and yet not committing to them so that they can find the so called "sexually compatible" person.

Well today i met up with an old friend of mine. He's been my best friend for 14 years now and we have been through every high and low. We didn't talk to each other for months. But today when we met up we were like laughing , joking with each other like we were together for months. We went back to sipping beer , smoking cigarettes etc. We had so much fun together as he went on to describe his long list of girlfriends while i discussed the latest guy i was seeing. 

We are absolutely opposites. I am the computer and science nerd. He's the macho playboy dude. He's the action gamer. I am the strategy gamer. He's the "Live Life with no restraints. It only comes once." guy. I am the "Give everything into your life to make it as meaningful as possible, it only comes once" guy. Yet the two of us find it easier to share everything so easily. This made me think on when soulmates could be friends. Why is it that my brother from another mother (and father too I might add) not be my soulmate? We share everything so well. Why not this one too?

In the evening We left homes to eat outside. After a small snack i told him that i had to visit this guy. He said he would visit this guys some other time. Now i wasn't dating this guy. He's really old. But he's jolly good company. He's the sweetest guy I had ever met. And although age has taken away his beauty i can still tell that he makes the most out of life. When we first met. He already had a boyfriend. I just wanted to meet this lovely couple back then. This year I heard that the other guy walked out on him. So he came to Kolkata to visit his family this year. So most often it was just him and me. So he turned out to such a sweety. And well we connected almost instantly. We are both the quiet types. Yet we couldn't stop talking when we met each other. I wish he was 10 years younger. Then we could have connected. More than just being friends. He is exactly like me. I know for sure that i can always depend on him. 

So basically I always had two soulmates not one. Soulmates need not always be there to look after all our whims and fancies. But they make us feel special despite our whims and fancies. Now the idea of soulmates doesn't look so stupid after all...