What is your most controversial view?

I have a theory that we have multiple “ones.”

That there is not just one soul reserved for us to love, learn and go deep with.

This was a hard lesson to learn, meeting my first soulmate, one—what have you, and realizing I wasn’t going to spend the rest of my life with him.

I remember grieving the day he got engaged, because in a hopeful, stubborn way part of my heart had refused—until that moment—to believe he wasn’t my forever person.

He was on the wishful back burner of my heart.

I called my mother, in tears and she told me that he still was my person. He still was a one. He was still my soul mate.

I realized that just because he wasn’t my forever didn’t invalidate his importance in my life and our connection.

Our connection has remained something incredibly significant, something I fall back upon in my heart when I need to.

When I need to remember exactly what I want in a partner, I remember what a staggering soul he is—and I wait.

I want to talk today about the other “ones,” the soulmates we may meet while we are single or in a relationship that we don’t end up with.

That we have a sure fire connection with, real as any—but because of timing we don’t always go deep with.

I think it is incredibly mature to, without shame, acknowledge that in our lifespan we will bump into handfuls of succulent souls we want to take a bite out of.

Whether we are single, in a relationship, engaged or married we will run into other ones.

I also don’t think acknowledging these connections means we love our partners or want to be in our relationship less—it just means there’s a f*ck ton of souls/lovers on this planet we could dance with/learn from.

They are the ones we meet in a coffee line-up, the one beside us in our yoga class, the guy at the bbq who’s engaged.

It’s the ones we meet and feel an undeniably powerful connection.

A connection that leaves us wanting to know more.

I think we make a choice, whether we engage in these connections.

These words are for the ones we meet and don’t explore.

The ones we love fully but don’t spend the rest of our lives with.

Those we run into at the grocery store and never see again.

The lovers we never take apart with our lips.

The partners we don’t open to and go deep with.

The people we don’t have a chance to have a first soul dip with.

The soul mates we skip coffee with, and look over our shoulder—for just a slight moment and wonder about.

The connections that exist that are missed, by choice.

Because we are involved, because they are unavailable, because one is simply not ready for love.

These ones are just as important as the forever–for we are here to connect, and what a gift to know that there are endless humans to open our hearts to and dance with.

What a treat to grow with multiple souls in a lifespan, or to simply know there are others out there who want to grow with us.

It is powerful to acknowledge these soulmates and thank them for the small reminder that in this massive, swallowing world we are never without the possibility of love.

Janne Robinson 2016
http://www.jannerobinson.com/

And that's just for starters

 

We need three new scoreboards.

 

I don't see that as being particularly controversial for anyone with a brain.

 

Paul Digby will play for England...

 

To add on to this I don't actually believe performance enhancing drugs is a bad thing. In fact if they want to and have consent I'm happy for athletes to take all the drugs and supplements possible and make sport the reserve of supermen running 30 second miles and dying at 30. At least it would be entertaining.

 

Squirrel porn is far superior to normal porn

 

Those on out of work benefits who are fit to do so should regularly have a black bag and be made to clean up the streets. A view that it is mainly those in that category who mess anyway

 

Kes isn't a good film!

{Puts on hardened steel hat}

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That's not controversial that's factual.

 

At the risk of sounding like a member of the 'People's Front Of Judea', I'm not convinced the Roman invasion of Britain had anything but an adverse effect in the subjugation of the lives & culture of ordinary Britons.

 

Speedy Gonzales is faster than Sonic the Hedgehog over the first 100metres

 

Looking out to sea from the prom at Scarborough.

I have got the right idea of this thread yes??

 

The TV licensing company shouldn't be allowed to send threatening and intimidating letters to people who have never shown any interest in wishing to use their service, no other company does. (I have finally succumbed to the devil and bought one though for the Euros, Paraolympics and Olympics).

 

Neighbours who don't have a TV, but keep knocking at our door asking if they can watch something on TV "for an hour".

People who choose not to drive and continually complain about cars being noisy, dirty and polluting, then ask me for a lift into town "because it's raining"

Both true stories!

 

Are they wanting to come in your house or for you to point the TV at the window? Do you ever notice the channel change as you're watching and get the feeling that they might have a universal remote?

Disclaimer: I'm not Stahlrost's neightbour!

 

Guitar-based music is sh*t

 

Boob tubes should banned
Greetings cards along with religion are the root of all evil
Farmers being paid subsidies should be stopped
After our defeat to Everton in yesterday's vital friendly the entire first team squad should be transfer listed and Hecky sacked bringing Kieth Hill back

 

Tribute bands/acts are. Make money from your own material not by covering music of others.

 

Folk that suffer with mind illness... ie depression. How do they know they're depressed ? Because they have an awareness of it, right. So something you have awareness of, cannot be you, because your aware of it.... it is other. What is aware of depression is far from depressed

Stay as the knower, and not what is know...

 

The licence fee should be scrapped, or at the very least, the BBC should be stripped back to nothing but a 24 hour news channel, with weekly current affairs programmes like Question Time and Panorama, and the licence fee set accordingly. The BBC knew that you didn't need a licence to watch iPlayer when they launched the service, it's not a loophole it's the law. They went ahead and did it anyway to ensure that they can now justify a licence fee from anybody with an internet connection.