Sunday, August 13, 2006

The nature of personality

Some people say that everybody has six twins in this world. My guess is that, when God decides to give life to a newborn, the vital fluid of life spills out and falls into seven different babies, not only one. From that time, the souls of that seven babies will be related, for their whole life.
The issue is that, instead of getting a full amount of characteristics, each baby will just get some qualities, which means that, ever since they are born, they'll be all their life incomplete, lacking one or several characteristics of their personalities, always feeling they don't belong here.
One of this souls may have aquired more spiritual force, but he lacks tenderness; another one may be a kind person, but he is also lazy. The one who is strong and decided may not be charming, and the charming one doesn't have a clue of what he is meant to be.
This way, the seven twin souls will go on, searching for the other ones, till finally some of them find. This is why people believe in soul mates.
But not all the babies will have the luck to find themselves, for this seven souls, created in heaven, are meant to live in the body of seven persons who may live in places far away from each other. They won't even born at the same time. Not even the great globalization phenomenon could find and put together this seven souls.
But there is still hope: when one of this seven dies, its soul will look for one or more of the other six, for it can't go to heaven incomplete. When it finds another of its twins, the characteristics it had will now be part of the other one. This way, somebody who has always been a coward, suddenly turns into a courageous man; and the one who is not romantic becomes then a poet.
The one of this seven souls who lives more than the other six will be lucky enough to end it's life as a complete person and, when he dies, its fulfilled soul will then be able to go back to heaven, where it will reunite to the fluid of life. It may have the opprtunity to fill a new soul, but, that time, it won't spill out, for it has learned it's not funny to split itself in as many parts as the rainbow colors.
Once I said so, I gotta say this is just my imagination. I don't believe that we have the chance to come back, or that God makes mistakes like the one in my story. And I think that if anything of this story was true there would certainly be a lot of people searching for their soul twins, to kill them and become stronger then, just like Highlander or Jet Li in The One.
But the truth is, there may be more than one who would like to know that there is a hope to aquire those characteristics we lack, like will, discipline, faith, commitment, courage, integrity, ethic, honesty, love, peace, strenght, decision, charm, tenderness, wisdom, vision, intelligence and tenacity, among others.

(Translation from my spanish blog, http://fuera-de-lugar.blogspot.com)

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