Soulmate

Your soulmate is supposedly your one true love.

It’s something people discuss constantly, because supposedly it’s what most people yearn for, and it’s somewhat a goal to achieve in life in order to attain pure and uncontested happiness.

But I believe that there might be something even stronger than that; friendship.

Since we presumedly have a soulmate in love, I don’t see why we wouldn’t have one in friendship.

People talk about the wonders of finding the love of your life, the moments and feelings you share with them are apparently indescribable.

I use the term “apparently” because I haven’t had the chance so far to meet that special someone.

However, I did find my soulmate in friendship, and let me tell you, there is nothing more special in the world.

If you haven’t had the blessing of meeting yours yet, let me just tell you, or at least try to explain what it feels like;

It’s that one person, that one person with whom you can share absolutely anything and everything. Whether its material, or emotional, it doesn’t really matter, because what’s yours will inevitably be theirs, and reciprocally.

They’re the type of person who can make any chore feel like a piece of cake, or at least will turn it in a way that will make it less boring to do, whether it’s by helping you, encouraging you, or even just by sitting there and talking to you as you go through this never-ending task.

You can spend hours on end with them, never getting tired of the time you get to share with that one special person, even if it means just scrolling through instagram in silence, till you find something you can share with them to which you will both laugh, or cry; all depends.

They are the person who would never allow themselves to hurt you. In an emotional way I mean. Physical is another story, because let’s face it, if they are truly your soulmate, they’re probably a bit of a cunt.

Still, they’ll never judge you, there is no possible shame to have with that person, because let’s be honest, they’ve probably already done worse. And if they haven’t, when the time will come that they do, you’ll be there for them the way they were for you.

Now, that doesn’t mean they won’t be honest with you, because they’ll always be the first to tell you the truth, even if it’s hard to hear, but in the most appropriate way. Whether it has to be direct and harsh, or soft and sugar-coated.

They are the person that make you laugh most in this shitty world, and could make any grey day bright once again.

Your jokes probably don’t make much sense most of the time, but lord do they make you laugh, as everyone else around you looks at you with an air of disdain.

But you guys make each other so happy, and your laughs are so pure that they are contagious, and the people around you will eventually end up smiling or laughing, whether it’s somewhat polite or genuine; it doesn’t matter, because you’re happy.

Your soulmate is someone that you love with a love so pure that you’ve asked yourself if they ever actually exist, if they are not a fragment of your imagination. Because to meet someone so kind, intelligent, witty, beautiful, funny… perfect, is it even really possible?

The french say “tu me manques” to say I miss you. It vaguely translates to “you are the missing piece of me”. Well once you find your soulmate, that sentence finds all it’s meaning, because they are truly the missing piece to your unsolved puzzle, they complete you. They’ve probably lived the same things as you have, or understand them like nobody else ever has. Losing them is a thought you couldn’t bare to withstand, so you just decide to never think about it.

But if it were to come to that, you would take a bullet for them. Such an incredible person deserves to life a long and precious life, even if it means cutting your own short.

You wish them everything good that there is for a person, considering it’s only fair, it’s everything they deserve; unlimited happiness. So seeing them sad, angry, or anything that could possibly affect them negatively drives you insane, because you know they deserve so much better.

Sure, they have little ticks that send you off the charts, habits you’d want to punch out of them but that you never would, because at the end of the day it’s a part of them, and in a weird twisted way, you love them for it.

I, thankfully, have had the chance to meet mine at the mere age of 18. I can truly say she is my soulmate in friendship, being that she is my everything, I couldn’t possibly imagine life without her.