CHAPTER 1: Starting
Some people hope, pray, and, in all fairness, believe, that somewhere out there, in our enormous and minuscule, crowded and empty, born and dying world, someone. Someone. Is out there. A perfect match for their soul, the other half to their whole, a secondary facet to themselves. Is out there.
Some are to busy for all, this, wondering and dreaming. They move on, keep going, busy themselves. They might feel lonely and cold, and every so often pause to wonder, but, they forget, they move on, keep going, busy themselves.
Some don't believe. At all. They can find themselves lonely and empty and realise that they
sort-of-wish they had someone, but logic, or misfortune, or bad memory temper that wish and they bury it deep within themselves, in that hidden bit that everyone has but no one can see. That tiny locked up place that even the most open individual has, squeezed so small even people themselves can't remember what they put in there.
A few. A most important few. A few who look at life, and the world, and the universe, and all it's innate workings, and understandings, and realise it is beyond their control, and intelligence. They just wish for another who understands, and helps, and fits, and works with them better than others. They hope for a person who can help them achieve, and be, their best.
These few are the people who realise the balance, they both hope and don't hope, for a person, who is both the other half and none of their soul.
They don't waste their life, wishing it away.
They don't miss their other, to busy to realise.
They don't want a perfect match, unable to see it doesn't exist.
They don't find an imperfection, telling themselves it's better than nothing.
They control and don't control, seek and don't seek, give and don't give, hide and don't hide, take and don't take.
They see where it starts and where it ends and just follow the path and the future and the person as long as it will have them and as long as they can hold onto happiness.
These are the people and this is their story.
