I think you are my soulmate. Please have better dress sense in our next life.
My entire body shakes as I desperately try not to laugh, but now Will’s shaking too, and people are tutting. Thankfully, Anna hasn’t noticed.
‘The only person who is meant for you, and only you in the spiritual sense, is your twin flame.’ She points to the picture behind her. ‘Your twin flame is far more powerful than your soulmate. It’s literally the other half of your soul. Your soulmate will improve your life, but your twin flame will complete it.’
The confused faces now have a glow of excitement, because clearly a twin flame is better than some old soulmate.
‘However, as with everything,’ she continues, ‘connecting with your twin flame, or even a soulmate, requires you to be vibrating on the same level as they are. You are here participating in the human experience, as is everyone else. If you’re not vibrationally aligned, unfortunately you’ll never connect. That’s why it’s so important to get into a place where you know and love and appreciate yourself because that’s a kind of vibration which cannot fail to attract the same.’
‘So, we might never meet our twin flame?’ Meg shouts out. I can hear the desperation in her voice.
Anna smiles. ‘You absolutely will, sugar; it just might not be in this lifetime.’ She turns to the rest of us. ‘This is why we need to redefine love. Y’all have this romantic ideal that must happen immediately or you’ve somehow failed. You cannot put life on hold. Fall in love with everyone you meet, take as many lovers as you desire, stop thinking that the next relationship should be the last one! There is nolast onebecause nothing ever truly ends. Every experience teaches us about what we want and don’t want, which in turn affects the choices we make going forward.’
She clicks on her slides again.
LOVE IS WHAT YOU DECIDE IT IS.
‘You define it. You make the rules. Tell the universe what you want and live like you already have it until you do.’
‘What if we did have it, but we messed it up? Can we get it back?’
As everyone turns to look at Kenneth, a couple of things become clear. Firstly, this is now just a shouty free-for-all and secondly, he’s absolutely talking about Patricia.
‘It depends on them,’ Anna responds. ‘You cannot make someone feel what you want them to feel. All you can do isyouand hope that you are a vibrational match for them.’
‘But what if that person refuses to change?’ Patricia turns her entire body to glare at Kenneth. ‘What if you let them back in and they’re still exactly the same low-life scumbag who never appreciated what they had?’
Will scribbles:
THIS IS BRILLIANT.
If I were Anna, I’d be feeling so uncomfortable right now, but she’s still smiling. God, she’s good. I want to be her when I grow up.
‘So often we think “this person would be perfect for me if they’d just change”. Forget that! You have to get into a place where everything about them is accepted byyou. If something doesn’t feel right, look at why it bothers you, not why it doesn’t bother them.’
Patricia shakes her head.
‘I see what’s happening here,’ Anna remarks. ‘We all do. Now – I don’t normally do this, I’m no marriage counsellor, but since y’all seem eager to do this publicly, let’s see where it goes.’
A hush comes over the group as Brad pulls two chairs to the front and requests that Patricia and Kenneth take a seat. I swear, if I had popcorn, I’d be truly happy right now.
Anna walks back and forth behind them while we all look on with bated breath.
‘So, let’s keep this simple,’ she begins. ‘And please only one at a time, this ain’tThe Jerry Springer Show. Who left who, and why?’
Anna has barely finished her sentence before Patricia announces that she left Kenneth because he cheated.
‘I knew he would cheat,’ she insists. ‘There wasn’t a day that went by where I wasn’t thinking about it. It was a miserable existence.’
Anna places her hand on Patricia’s shoulder. ‘OK, and Kenneth. Is this true? Just so we’re all on the same page.’
Kenneth nods. ‘But I only cheated once, and it was months after she first started accusing me.’
Anna doesn’t place her hand on Kenneth’s shoulder, instead she turns to Patricia. ‘So, let’s see… you woke up every day and told yourself that Kenneth was screwing around… and then you were surprised that he did?’
Woah. Even Will gasps. Patricia looks both confused and hurt.
‘We’ll get to him in a minute, hon, but do you understand where I’m going with this? We get what we think about and all you could think about was your man screwing someone else.’
