When i was in 6th grade the new kid next-door told me on the school bus home one day that God had told him at church that past weekend that we were soul-mates.  Not the best opening line for a friendship or relationship, certainly a unique one, and one that led to years of a great friendship and even more years of questions.  I never really had even thought about the concept of soul-mates until he brought it up–that might have even been the first time I had ever even heard the term, yet its something that you hear and immediately you seem to know what it means, no one ever had to define it for me, but I had tons of questions.  Travis answered a lot of my questions–he seemed to be the guru of soul mates, I mean come on, God had 1. spoken to him 2. told him exactly who his was, he definitely had something.  But looking back after all these years I wonder if it was silly to believe in soul mates at all, is there such a thing?  If there is, do you become soul mates or is it really something predestined like Travis would have had me believe?  Why do people settle for these mediocre relationships–that aren’t anything near those perfectly envisioned relationships they had planned for themselves and does that mean that thats really who they were meant to be with?  Do you lose your chance if you don’t leap on it?

I use to wonder if me and Travis missed something big because we never really acted on the fact that we were suppose to be soul mates; we became great great friends, and we loved each other surely, but we were never in love.  Even today, even though we haven’t been close since high school, if I ask him about that day on the school bus when he told us what God had said to him, he swears on his life he couldn’t have made that up if he wanted to.    So basically, every avenue I’ve taken, I’ve been confronted with the same unanswered questions I had almost 10years ago; maybe there is no real answers–maybe its up to the interpretation of everyone and their own love story?