Somewhere Between Pain and Sweetness
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In a world where approximately only 30% of the planet’s population are lucky enough to get a soulmate, finding out that your newborn baby has a soulmark on their back never fails to bring a smile to the parents’ faces.
Black ink equals a blessed child. Black ink represents the child’s other half, their partner in crime, a shared heart. The universe itself has made the match, chosen someone it knows is worthy of the child’s love. How fortunate the parents are to know that their baby will have a special someone waiting for them, someone who will take care of them and never willingly leave them.
Those who are marked are practically born half in love with their soulmate, that is what the specialists say. Soulmates are two people born from the same star, a soulmate is someone who will love you because you are you. This gift is something the marked should treasure. It is a miracle full of love.
That is, of course, if they ever get to meet their other half.
Sometimes, not everything goes as fate has planned. Sometimes, the world knows how to be cruel. When the person who is marked realizes that their match lives on the other side of the planet, things can get complicated. Sad but true, it is not uncommon that the soulmates never meet.
It is just how life works. Some people fall ill too early, some have financial problems, some just prefer to be alone and single. But time and time again, the biggest reason seems to be that the soulmates have already fallen in love with someone else, someone who is not their destined life partner. Another sad fact is that people get scared, very easily. The obstacles might seem too big. It isn’t rare to feel like you won’t be good enough for your soulmate or that your soulmate will be a disappointment to you. It is normal, it happens.
However, those people are still considered cursed. They live their lives knowing that they will never be whole even though half of their heart is literally somewhere out there waiting. Words written in black ink represent both security and uncertainty. If you don’t go after your happiness you’ll have to suffer the consequences. What a wasted opportunity.
And that is what the mark essentially is. A possibility. A chance to feel a remarkable connection with someone, a connection that only a handful of others get to experience. Still, after everything, it has been proven that those who are marked can live a happy, fulfilling life even without their soulmate – alone or with someone else. Not even the cursed are doomed.
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