soulmates and snapshots

I have this theory on soulmates.

I think you meet many people in the course of your life whose souls fit with yours. But the way I think of a soulmate isn't the one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. I think a soulmate's express purpose it to come into your life and change it, and you, somehow. They're the people who kind of turn your life upside down, or at least in another direction. You may only be with them for a short period of time, or you may not have a chance to be with them at all, but they spark an epiphany, change your outlook. You could have seen yourself with them forever, but sometimes it's just not meant to be. You met at the wrong juncture in your lives. The eventual hope is that the person you end up with is a soulmate, and they just happen to stick around.

I am also experimentally entertaining a notion that things happen for a reason.

Not sure where that came from, but those are my thoughts.



I went to the actual Warsaw uprising museum today, and was touched. It was one of the best displays I've ever seen at a museum and it was really fascinating. It was, however, sobering. It will never make sense to me that people can possibly do such hateful things to one another. I see it in my own fearsome grand-aunt, who "hates Jews." But how can you hate an entire group of people based on something like that? It just doesn't make sense.

Where is the freakin love, people?



So, my snapshot. For me, songs are better than anything at defining certain moments in my life. These songs define where I am, now.

Vision of Heaven (Bloc Party) [sort of the defining song of this trip]
Sunworshipper (Mylo) [so I took off on my bicycle...]
This Is The First Day of My Life (Bright Eyes) [this is modern love]
Chicago (Sufjan Stevens) [perfect for metro rides home]
Surfacing (Belle) [makes me feel new, and beautiful]
Fiore (Biagio Antonacci) [walking through the old city]
Round Here (Counting Crows) [defining of current relationships]
Personal (Stars) [sad beauty of rejection]
Under the Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers) [will forever define home]
I'm Good I'm Gone (Lykke Li) [auditory courage]
Dreaming (Bassboosa) [summer love]
Ion Square (JBLDBMY Version) (Bloc Party) [sheer genius]
Everything (Michael Buble) [impossible to be sad while listening]
Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight (Amos Lee) [healthy perspective]
Waiting for the 7.18 (Bloc Party) [nostalgia and seizing the day]
Hypnotized (Ani DiFranco) [solace in a stranger]

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