I think this was a great piece. I agree completely with your point that we are constantly trying and failing ro find this fictional soulmate that we aren't paying attention to the people we do come across daily. Also, the over romanticized fairytale love story is so rampant in our culture, it is hard to break away from this lie we have been told all our life. It makes sense that soulmates can be absolutely fictitious but the notion even right now makes me feel bad so that's pretty amazing. I am sure I am not the only person that is conditioned to think about soulmates and what we think we know of love in this overly optimistic way that even the consideration of it being false renders a negative feeling in response to the thought. That just goes to show that we are trained on what the perfect relationship should be and not to settle for the "wrong" one. I also think this attitude is part of the reason people do not work things out or weather through a storm because when it gets rough, they chalk it up to the fact that they probably just aren't soulmates and then they end the relationship. I feel like people move on too quickly because they are constantly searching for that perfect person and they also don't even know themselves very well.