The Idea of "A Perfect Soulmate"

Here I start with my first piece in girl-talk. Let me just talk a little about myself first. I am 26 years of age and for so many years I have been searching for my 'perfect soulmate'. It may be because I have read over 200 oops let me be honest over 400 mills and boons and the idea of that perfect someone crept in me since teens and till a few months back , I was still hallucinated by this idea of 'a perfect soulmate' who would sweep me off my feet one day and love me till eternity.
I know like me, every girl has this dream of finding that perfect someone.. fall madly in love and get married eventually... a happily ever after story.
So what exactly is that perfect soulmate that every girl dreams of since the time of her puberty..
It starts with the silly crushes on the cutest boy in your class or the most perfect heart throb movie star. Then as things change, we look for more... for that someone who would have the same tastes as us... Someone who eats the same flavored ice-cream, reads the same kind of books, love thriller movies, and sometimes even speak the same line as we do.
A soulmate full of compassion who is there by you whenever you want that person to be. Whether its the day when your favourite soap on tv ended, when you have the biggest pimple on your nose or when your pet died. Through thick, through thin when you turn, you find that person beside you.
A perfect someone who just knows it even before you speak, helps clear that big confusion in your head, returns your calls no matter what and even when you start feeling that this could be the right someone BAMM!! you realize no this isn’t the person you have been looking for.
So the next step is compromise, changing oneself into the type of person he wants you to be. And oneday you might just end up feeling at a loss, a different identity and an entirely different person that you are not because you would have changed so much by then.
Over years I have been trying to figure out what this most perfect soulmate would be like. I have dated many a time and I have tried to change many a time, trying to find out who that perfect soulmate would be.
And one day it dawned..I have all my wonderful friends around me:) They are my idea of not one but many perfect soulmates. When I want to watch that horrid flopped movie just because it has my favourite star, I know I have a friend who has the same weird taste of movie stars, when I want to shop and shop there is a friend who wants to shop along me because we love the same things and have the same craving for clothes shoes bags, when I am sad and I want to make that 2 A.M. call to just cry myself out, I know I have another crazy friend who would pick the call, listen and give me a console because that person is a sweetheart and a nocturnal.
So, the idea of a perfect soulmate is not just one. We can have many many soulmates and still have more. And we can still be just ourself and never even care to change because all friends just love the way we are..
As of today, I am happily single with all my loved soulmates and maybe if I hadn’t been through those bad times I might never have realized the bounty of soulmates that I have. Amen to that :)