Do you believe in soul mates?

[Asia]

Just asking...

[Aaron]

I'd say no... I mean there are roughly 3 billion people of the opposite sex. Odds are there are going to be many that you could fully live your life with. This number will vary depending on how picky you are when it comes to the quality of your mate.

Just for the record I think love is a chemical reaction in the brain.

[Asia]

A lot of life is chemical reactions, I think. But I think you can take pleasure in the cycles of human life. We are merely animals in a lot of ways.
But I think or maybe I just hope that something within us is driven by something that is beyond the mundane, something that is beyond chemical reactions. I'd like to think love is somehow beyond, in the realm of meaning or consciousness. But it isn't, at least for the most part, and that is a fact that is really hard to accept.

I hope to think rationally about things at least half the time. When I am asleep, things that aren't real can be real. When I am awake, only rational things are allowed. I hope to not become completely crazy, and this particular deviation from rationality serves to keep me from getting completely incapacitated by depression. Humans need a certain degree of insanity to maintain sanity. It's a matter of knowing what is the crazy part???

[Asia]

I thought once that soul mates are made and not found. That relationship did not work.

[Aaron]

Ya it sucks when you seen the world as it really is. By viewing people as civilized animals it explains a lot.

It's hard if not impossible to change people, so finding someone thats on the same path as you is a must. Learn and grow together as a team, and it should work out? idk, but it sounds good to me.

We need an optimist to chime in on this thread and cheer it up.

[mmelnick]

I believe in soul mates, but it's really a relationship that just needs to be cultivated and cared for. I don't think it's instantaneous. I'm great friends with my ex and no one will ever relate to me like she does. We know each other too well. I don't know. It depends on a lot of things.

[jesse]

2 girls 5yrs wasted nope

[DG3]

Definitely

[Asia]

Here's a more optimistic viewpoint.
I hope someday to have a soulmate. I hope someday to fly. But people fly all the time, just not the way you'd think.

[vedika]

Haha, you sure you're edge? You write like a hippy on acid. Hehehehe.

[Ambear]

I believe that there are people out there who are definitely meant for each other... but the idea that there is only one seems silly to me. I think there are a handful of people out there for me.. and hopefully I find the one that matches me most. :]

[Rich]

I think I'm a romantic at heart and as much as I'd like to believe in the idea of soul mates, personal experience has told me no.

[vedika]

Yes. But I also believe some people are destined to suffer a lonely existence too. Karma, dude.