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Your Soulmate is Your Complement, Not your missing piece
Isis Shephard, may 2025

Finding love for your individuality stands as one of the many virtues that last a lifetime. Many during this desolate time feel incomplete and look for external validation. These individuals are what is being described in the idea of a soulmate filling a void within someone. A notion used commonly to express romanticism and the idea of finding belonging. These individuals are terrifying. Beings who lack their own identity and sense of individuality. Beings whom I choose to blame my fear of commitment and conformity on, whether it be true or not. 
This false sense of belonging and partnership has been spread thin throughout society. It is the reason why mommy and daddy don’t love each other, and we get new episodes of reality television to distract ourselves from that fact. The exploration of falsehood. 
If soulmates exist, I hope they stand out against the false beings of the earth. I hope they come at perfect moments when you have found your individuality and accepted it for what it is. I hope a soulmate stands as a complement of individuality and not a missing piece of the individual. 
A true soulmate should enhance your already existing beauty rather than fill a void in your poor existence. Not a perfect person, as no one would deserve them, but honest, so that there is no more to fear in the journey of existence. But if not, perhaps the true soulmate is the other half of us found through each experience, which fosters our individuality.

I believe individuality is the most integral piece of existence. A piece that is constantly at risk from the inner workings of society. Individuality, I believe, is the most beautiful thing to grace human perception. Individuality is what makes me, me, and you, you. It is what makes us fawn over models and find rejection towards modern trends. 
Individuality is what many chase in desperation to be viewed as interesting without the understanding that no one experience is singular to any individual; but, instead, it is the un-replicated combination of experiences, emotions, and personality that makes you uniquely you. Individuality for me is a haven.
The idea of putting your all into one being, one thing, one relationship stands as the most frightening thought of any thoughts, putting your full self on display to be nurtured or destroyed at their leisure. The most beautiful creature could destroy everything I have ever developed within myself, and I might never realize until it’s too late to retrieve those missing pieces. The idea that by giving someone a chance, you might lose your individuality, giving your all to them might cause you to lose it. Conformity to what they believe might damage the fragile nature of the individual. 

Isis Shephard

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