(Here is a letter I wrote as part of a self-discovery exercise for a class I was taking in 2001.)
Dear Soul Mate,
It feels strange to write to someone I’ve never met before. Of course, maybe we have met and I didn’t realize who you were. Either way, we aren’t together right now in the way I know we are meant to be together. Maybe we’re acquaintances. Maybe we’ve never met. Maybe we’ve passed each other on the street or in a crowded restaurant.
I dream about you. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I feel your arms around me. I feel comfortable. Peaceful. Secure. Loved. Sometimes I wake up and my first thought is: “I miss you” and I know in my heart that it is you, my soul mate, that I am talking to in that moment.
I guess we aren’t together yet because it isn’t time for us to be together. I worry that time is running short. My mind wants to meet you and start the fabulous journey that will be our life together.
But, right now I am content knowing that you are out there, taking care of what you need to do in your life before we can meet. I also understand that there are things I need to accomplish before we can be together. My goals now are to discover those things and do them. To bring us ever closer.
I love Richard Bach’s book The Bridge Across Forever because it reminds me that you are out there waiting for me and that I will find you, someday. Because I believe that life brings us the people we are meant to know. And who is more important in our lives than our soul mate?
I wish you, my friend, peace, love, light and every happiness.
Until we can be together…