What is a Soul Mate?

"Well, it's like a best friend, but more. It's the one person in the world that knows you better than anyone else. It's someone who makes you a better person. Actually, they don't make you a better person, you do that yourself because they inspire you. A soul mate is someone who you carry with you forever. It's the one person who knew you and accepted you and believed in you before anyone else did or when no one else would. And no matter what happens, you'll always love her. Nothing can ever change that. Make sense?"

–Dawson's Creek

What is a Soul Mate?

What is it really?

Your other half? The one who completes you?

No.

One person does not make you whole.

That is beyond any one being's capabilities.

But it is in one's power to make a person better.

You made me better…

It is in one's power to keep a person from harm.

I want you safe. My Doctor.

It is in one's power to have faith.

If I believe in one thing...just one thing...I believe in her.

Soul Mates see the good and the bad.

They see the hurt, lonely man behind an orchestra of disarming smiles and constant laughs.

They see a fatherless daughter wanting to be loved.

They see the truth behind harsh words.

You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of mine with you.

And they accept it.

How long are you going to stay with me?

Forever.

Cause that's just it. Forever.

The true test of loyalty and love.

But sometimes no matter how hard you try, forever doesn't last.

Outside forces rip forever from two soul mates.

And that leaves them inconsolable.

Take me back, Take me back, Take me back.

Leaves them broken.

I'm old enough to know that a longer life isn't always a better one. In the end, you just get tired; tired of the struggle, tired of losing everyone that matters to you, tired of watching everything you love turn to dust.

And it's awful.

But sometimes, the bond between soul mates is so strong, nothing can break it.

Rose is coming back. Isn't that good?

Yeah.

It can last for years.

I could help Rose Tyler with her homework!

And can stay in the heart like a warm ember waiting to be revived.

So what is a soul mate?

A soul mate is someone who will and has died for you.

A soul mate is someone who will hold you after you faced your greatest enemy.

A soul mate is someone who breaks down the barriers of the universe just to be by your side again.

A soul mate sees everything.

All that is. All that was. All that ever could be.

And they are so loved for it.

I love you. Quite right.