Matters of the Soul!

It's a Sunday morning, 7 am when I start writing this post. I woke up, made myself some tea and sat down to do some writing while my maid is cleaning the house. This is the first weekend in so many months that I am doing nothing but staying home and relaxing. There's a reason. The reason is a book. 'Brida' by Paulo Coelho. In short, it's a book on the Wicca culture.

A few days back, my girlfriends from work left early and I had nothing to do. On a whim, I decided to go to my favourite bookshop. That week was particularly troubled for me. My heart was in a turmoil. And no prizes for guessing... It was a guy. I did not know how I felt about him and what he expected from me. I did not know if he was 'the one.' Or, in other words the burning question was 'is he or will he be my soulmate?'

I stroll around the bookshop with this thought in my head and decided on reading Salman Rushdie's new book. It was crappy. I moved on. I reached this pile of books and saw that it was the Paulo Coelho pile. I read the cover and see this:

'But how do I know who my soulmate is?'
'By taking risks' she said to Brida. 'By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.'

Corny? 'Yewwwwwww' reaction? I care not. Guess what. This Wicca tells Brida that a person can have more than one soulmate and that it needn't necessarily be a guy all the time. Apparently, Adam's soul was split and Eve was born. That's the way with soulmates. The soulmates are a part of one soul and in each life, we are obliged to find at least one of these soulmates. Sometimes a soulmate walks past us and we do not even notice it. We have to take another life to meet the soulmate again, it seems.

I have not finished the book yet and I don't know how long it is going to take. All I do know is, the book has made me stop passing each moment and made me sit down and be aware of each waking moment. Which is why unusually for me, I woke up early and sat down to write this. Have I found my soulmate? I don't think so. Will I find him? I hope so. Have I passed by him and not noticed? I wonder...

-K

Music: U2 - I still Haven't found what I am looking for. (Jaggu's Fave because he says life is like that)