We all have this dream idea of having a soul mate. We all have this idea that we have another "half". These ideas are not fantasies, they may be the reality. The hard part is when this person you thought was "your person" is not in fact yours. Before my most serious relationship ended, I thought that my future was going to be perfect was all figured out. All of my daydreams consisted of what life would be like with my "perfect match". When that relationship was over, I realized that I must have not met my soul mate. I honestly thought I would never find anyone else because I was so insistent I had already found the one. We think that we can not be with anyone else but this one person, and getting over just this one person is one of the hardest pills we will ever swallow. For quite a while, I felt that because I could not be with who I thought was "the one" meant that I would just be alone forever. I constantly looked around, scrolled through social media and saw so many couples who must be each other's soulmates because they were so happy. I thought that I would never have that type of love because I felt like my soulmate has already left, so that means there is nobody else out there who could make me feel love again. I was wrong. Coming to the realization that everyone goes through a heartbreak like this was just mind-blowing. I asked myself "How can someone get over this horrible feeling? How could someone open up their heart again, knowing it could feel this way again?" I prayed, I asked people how they got through their worst heartbreaks, and I even started to read about coping with heartbreak. One day all of the questions just stopped after I realized how many people in this world there are. In the world today there are 7.35 BILLION people. Out of those many people how many of them have been remarried? How many of them have had their hearts broken? How many of those people feel or have felt what I am going through now? Probably more than half. As the saying goes, "when one door closes, another one opens". I guess I just had to learn it was okay to shut the door and be brave enough to open another one. Yes, many doors will be slammed in your face, but behind one of those really is going to be your soul mate. So here's to all the men/women who have allowed us to close doors, so we can open new ones with even better things behind it. (We just may have to slam our fingers in them a couple of times.) If you are doubting whether or not there is someone for you, just know that God made the perfect person for you. If you are feeling like you lost the only person that can make you feel the love you had, then you are wrong. Everyone is put in your life for a reason. Maybe rather than being a blessing, a person was in your life to teach you a lesson.