Stay True. Stay You.

Let me tell you about a soulmate. Your soulmate is not someone who buys you flowers, brings you chocolate, or lays under the stars with you. Your soulmate is someone who makes you question everything you've ever known, someone who changes your plans, and makes you promises. Not just any promises though. Or promises on temporary feelings. Someone who promises you the world and takes every action to prove his promises are true. Someone who makes you laugh out loud and even silently. Someone who wrecks your plans and opens your eyes. Someone who can be silent when words aren't needed and speak when they are. Not someone who tells you what you wanna hear or someone who knows exactly what to say. Your soulmate is someone that can exchange 1,000 words between your eyes without even opening his mouth. Your soulmate is someone who not only knows what to say to make it better but someone who only speaks the truth. Your soulmate is not someone who spoils you or gives you every single thing you want. Your soulmate is someone who teaches you how to work hard and be humble so you can do those things for yourself, with your own money, that you earned. Your soulmate isn't someone who has all the answers. Your soulmate tries to understand the questions with you and helps you discover the answer. Your soulmate makes you better not content. Your soulmate knows what you're feeling just by looking at you. Your soulmate listens without the intent of answering. Just sincere listening. Your soulmate makes your problems theirs. Cries when you cry. Laughs when you laugh. In fact, your laugh alone should make your soulmate fall in love with you even more. Your soulmate isn't based on looks, style, or class. Your soulmate isn't perfect. Your soulmate has flaws. He makes mistakes. But your soulmate is worthy of forgiveness. Your soulmate will never intentionally hurt you or put you second. But he's also human. Things happen. Your soulmate is someone who makes you understand these things. He teaches you how to compromise. He teaches you so much about compassion you'll wonder if you were ever even in love before like you thought you were. Your soulmate isn't someone who gracefully comes into your life at the perfect time. Your soulmate comes wrecking in. Rearranging your world and changing your plans. Your soulmate turns you into a better you just by choosing to stand beside you. You see, more than anything, your soulmate isn't someone who can give you a temporary high. Your soulmate is your lifelong partner. He's your best friend first and your lover second. He's the never ending band around your left finger. He's your favorite song, place, and memory. He's the one who consumes your soul. He's your strength, your security, and your happiness. He's the other half of your heart and the only one with enough power to bring you closer to God. If you get flowers, chocolate, a starlight date, or even better a good looking man too, then you're lucky. But those are just bonuses. None of those things matter in 10, 20, 30 years from now. What matters is that as you age the love of your soulmate doesn't. Your soulmate? I don't know where he is. But mine? His name is Ryan. And he was just described as everything I said your soulmate was. Why? Because I know this is a once in a lifetime love and I know everyone deserves to have someone exactly like him. I just hope you're all lucky enough to have a man as beautiful on the outside as on the inside like me. He's more than I could dream of. Find THAT and stop worrying about a Friday night date.