A soul mate is the person you believe you’re destined to be with. Someone with whom you share a deep and natural connection. Someone who perfectly understands you, complements you and completes you.
Many people trace it back to the philosopher Plato. In his work The Symposium, he explores themes of love and beauty. He writes about how human beings used to be a big round blob with four arms, four legs and two faces. These beings became too powerful however, so the gods decided to split them in two. That’s why human beings now are incomplete. That’s why we yearn to find our other half, our soul mate so that we can be whole again.
We seem to believe this. In our world, we seem to believe that romantic love is the key to happiness. We seem to think that if you’re single, you’re incomplete. Our society excludes singles from activities. We make them feel less than. We pressure them to conform to society’s expectations.
The message the world tells us is, Romantic love is the key to happiness. But the message single people hear is: There’s something wrong with you because you’re not in a relationship.
Is that the message we get from the Bible?
