True love?

Our world today is obsessed with 'True love.' How true, though, IS true love. How many times have we been with somone and thought they were our soulmates, but things didn't work out and we ended up with some one else. Who is to define who your real soulmate is? And really, is eternal love dependent on circumstance, rather than emotion?

Some connections are instant, and feel just right. But there is one tiny aspect that does not make it perfect. It maybe long distance, it maybe a difference in life goals,....and we let go. Then comes along somebody else and the circumstances are just perfect. The connection might not be as strong the first time, but with time, the bond grows...and we name it our true love.

In this trial and error way of dating, while we are constantly looking for mates to be our companions for life, we meet new people everyday. A 'Serendipity' does not happen to everyone. All of us are witnesses to such incidents when we met someone, there was that spark, there was the chance..the chance of it turning into love. But, it didnt happen. And Years later, a memory comes back to us and we can only sigh and say, "If only.........."

Life is full of relationships that are waiting to happen, of relationships that could have happened. Is the only distingusihng factor between a relationship and true love, whether it worked out or not? Why has love come to be an end, and not the process, the experience, it is?