Disclaimer: I wish I owned AJ and ShutterBox, but unfortunately I don't. And I think I never will.
Um...Yeah. I bought volumes 2 and 3 the other day and wrote this sometime around the middle of the second one.
Soul Mates
Hullo. It's me. AJ. Adrien. Angel of Childhood's End. Whatever you call me, the facts always remain the same. I have died over five hundred times now - five hundred and four, to be exact - and at some point you just start to think.
You think about God, religion, war, peace, death, life, love, loss. Eventually you get to the point of love. Well, not love so much as the matter of soul mates. Do they exist? Is there really only on other person in this universe that we were meant to be with? Is it really even possible to find this so-called 'soul mate'?
Of all the topics I've pondered over these seven thousand odd-some years, this is the matter that bewilders me the most. I mean, if there's only one person you're meant to be with, how will you know if and when you've found them? I only ask because I think it is possible I have met mine.
The funny thing about death - and life, I suppose - especially mine, is that once I return to the University, all memory and recollection of the life I just ended vanish with the mortal corporeal body that we as humans inhabit whilst on Earth. But a few things do remain. Not much, ming you, but are present nonetheless.
Mainly, they're simply shades of knowledge, nothing more than a mere shadow of what had once been. But when I come across a person or monument that I knew in a past life, something stirs in the very back corner of my mind. The reason I am mentioning this is because every time I return to the mortal coil, that same corner awakens.
I couldn't tell you who, exactly, or any distinguishing characteristics, but there is always something familiar.
It took me a long while to realize the origin of these mental murmurs, assuming that I had maybe visited the place sometime before, nothing more. But now I think I know better.
Now, I believe that the reasoning behind these minute awakenings is because of a person. And I believe, if such things even exist, this person - whether they be a he or a she - is the only person I am supposed to be with.
My soul mate.