Soul mates

Usually, when I'm not reading about media theories related to fanhood, I'm racking my brain with deep questions about soul, unexplained connections, the power of the mind and the power of faith and affirmations. But not tonight.

Thanks to a 5-hour migraine, I feel far too washed out to even begin to read another fascinating book about the Big Issues. Instead, I watched the pilot of What About Brian?, another brilliant episode of House, and tested how my opinions relate to 1100 candidates in up-coming elections.

And guess what? Two of the leading "matches" for me were women about my age (one younger, one slightly older) and one of them had a connection to the same city as we - and we're not talking about the capital here! But, one question is left: is one of these candidates my election soul mate? Is one of them really worth my vote? Naturally, I went to their websites to find out. And now I am quite happily aware of their opinions. But the election day is not here yet. I'm looking forward to reading more before I mentally cast my vote. But I admit, one of them sounds very promising one.

I must admit that one problem did come up: will this candidate have a real chance of making through? Will others vote this person, too? Yes, I wonder that: not much, but still. I must admit, though, that usually the candidates I vote in these elections have made their way to the end. Unfortunately I'm still waiting for my candidate to do the same at the presidental elections! But I'm convinced that one of these years that will happen, too.

It's funny... every time when elections are coming up, I'm the one who finds out the info about the candidates and do all these election candidate tests and think about it. I have friends who only vote for president, which, back here, doesn't really mean that much. Prime minister, other minister and the houses have far more power in here. But I can relate to them; it takes time to find out who stands for what and who is the one who represents those issues which matter the most to you. I figure that out and I vote. Ever time. No matter what election it is. Why? Because democracy counts! One vote does matter. And besides, that gives me the right to complain about the results! If you don't vote, how can you expect that something would ever change? But when you do, you have tried to do something about it.

Perhaps the whole title of this post is odd one. Soul mate. Some do not believe in them, no matter what the context would be. I do. I certainly do. In pretty much all of them.

I suppose it's easy to say that, because I'm deeply in love with this wonderful man, who is important and dear to me in every level. I know that it's waste of time to even try to explain that to someone who has not fell in love with someone on the first sight. I know I used to say that I believe in it, but truly I didn't think that I could be so lucky that it would happen to me. But when my boyfriend walked into the church yard on that December night, I knew.

I read years ago, that soul mates simply recognize each other. That they cannot really explain what specific it is, but there is something special about that other person. And then they just keep on trying to figure it out rest of their lives, being blissfully happy in the meantime.

Still, I didn't expect this man to love guinea pigs as much as I do. But during these months we've been taking care of twoo little ones, Eetu and Kasper, I've realized that he's my soul mate in that way, too. Yesterday evening we were holding each guinea pig and cutting their nails little shorter. It was so sweet to see these little animals on his lap and in his hands. And we complitely worked as a team when the bigger one, Eetu, tried to escape and fall from the sofa. Together we managed to prevent that and prevent Eetu from getting hurt. It was slightly scary, but still, as a whole, the experience felt like a family moment. I know how silly it sounds, but that's how it felt.

And naturally now I'm smiling just to the idea that one of these days I will get to be with my boyfriend and our guinea pigs each day. Naturally it's hard to tell how long it will last until we'll find an appartment which we both like, but any day between today and forever will be, in my books, soon.