Do I really need to wait for my soul mate? This question is the single most plaguing, most tormenting question in the dating world. All the books written by married people say that you just can't know anybody for the first three months. But if someone is my soul mate, doesn't that, by definition, mean that I know him already? I know that I've met at least two soul mates in my life, and, yet, I still haven't found a committed relationship. My first soul mate I met when I was 12, right before he went into Juvenile Hall for selling pot and throwing a desk on a teacher. My most recent soul mate is currently in Paris with his new girlfriend. As far as I'm concerned, soul mates haven't really enriched my life so much as given me reason to lament. The only thing that keeps me looking for my soul mate is my worry that I wouldn't be able to stick out a long-term relationship with anybody else. Just for today, I can hold out for my soul mate.