Do we still believe in soulmates? In the time of where people are looking for "hook ups" on Yik Yak and no one wants a serious relationship in college, do we still have the hope of finding the one? What if during our time of not wanting to commit we lost the one for us?

In history they had a way of explaining soulmates. A Greek playwright by the name of Aristophanes presents a story about soulmates for Plato in his dialogue The Symposium. He states that originally humans had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. It is said that humans had great strength at the time and this threatened to conquer the gods. Zeus came up with a creative solution, he split humans in half as punishment for humanity's pride. Each human would then forever long for his or her other half; the other half of his/her soul. It is said that when the two find each other, there is an unspoken understanding of one another, that they feel unified and would know no greater joy than that.

In our current usage, the term soulmate usually refers to a romantic partner, with the implication of an exclusive lifelong bond. It is commonly accepted that one will feel a sense of completeness once they have found their soulmate, Today we don't use it as often as other terms that represent our significant other.

Sometimes we get lost in the harshness of the world around us. We forget how to be there for our person or to be open with what is going on in our lives. School work complicates having a life in ways we never thought. Maybe when you are free, they have an important deadline and vice versa. It gets hard and we get tired of it all. We grow tired of fighting or fighting to make it work and tired of not having time to do the things we once enjoyed. Instead of communicating completely with our person, we try what we consider our best and if that doesn't work we move on. What kind of society have we evolved into?

You may be getting the bias opinion of a hopeless romantic here but take me seriously when I say that the idea of soulmates only remains for the select few that are optimistic enough to handle it. No I am not talking about the whole white horse, the hansom prince, and the whisking away from all the evilness; although a horse wouldn't be so bad to have sometimes. I am talking about the person who is always there even when maybe you don't deserve them, the person who knows how to make you laugh when all you want to do is cry, the person that understands you and knows the deepest darkest secret you have. That person is the person we will spend a lifetime looking for and if we are lucky maybe it is the person that has been right in front of us this whole time.