UNFLTRD THOUGHTS: Soulmates

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🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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On this week’s “Unfltrd Thoughts", we talk about soulmates and whether or not we think they exist. Life isn’t a Disney movie or romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan & Tom Hanks - unfortunately. But does that mean soulmates are a thing of fiction? The idea of finding your soulmate has become more of a cliche than anything else over the years, but the idea that there is someone out there made especially for you, is an idea we want to hang on to. We also dive into the ayah “we created you...

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0:00.0	Let's talk about soulmates.
0:09.3	Everybody has an opinion on this.
0:11.0	And it's so funny because last time we put up a post, a poll.
0:14.1	And I'm like, do you guys believe in soulmates?
0:15.9	Yes.
0:16.3	Or are they as rare as unicorns?
0:18.1	Like I think 40% of people said rare as unicorns.
0:20.6	Really?
0:20.8	That's a big tongue.
0:22.1	Yeah. And I'm like, does that equate to them being single or does that equate to them
0:26.1	meeting somebody and it just ends up being a horrible person? Look, what does that mean?
0:30.1	I think our generation has a very misconstrued notion of what a soul might really is.
0:35.5	Because we're the generation that grew up with like
0:37.5	Disney princess movies and like anything with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks like we have this idea
0:42.8	that a soulmate is this perfect person that exists out there that 100% compliments us and I just
0:49.1	don't believe that person completes us I don't think there's Mr. Perfect out there. I think you have to find someone who
0:56.0	is not Mr. Perfect, but Mr. Wright. I love that because that's so true because you know what,
1:00.7	you do grow up and you look at Disney and then you assume that you're going to get this perfect
1:04.8	prints. No, that's non-existent. You're not going to get a prince. And little birds will not fly around and help you get dressed in the morning.
1:11.5	That's not how it goes.
1:12.4	That's not how it goes at all.
1:14.1	But there's something that I want to challenge because this is something that I think we,
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