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A to Z Quick Chat 92 | Do you believe that each person has a soulmate?
The A to Z English Podcast
Beliefs about Soulmates and the Importance of Working Hard in a Marriage
The chapter explores different perspectives on soulmates and emphasizes the significance of effort and sacrifice in a successful marriage. It includes anecdotes about friends who believed in soulmates but failed to nurture their relationship, leading to divorce.
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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack is joined by May, Layla, and Hendrick as they discuss the following question:
Do you believe that each person has a soulmate?
Transcript:
00:00:01
Jack
Welcome to the A-Z English podcast, where Jack and Social take you on a journey from learning the basics to mastering the nuances of the English language. Our podcast is designed for non-native speakers who are looking to improve their English skills in a fun and interactive way. Each episode covers a wide range of.
00:00:22
Jack
Topics from grammar and vocabulary to slang and culture to help you navigate the English speaking world with ease.
00:00:32
Jack
Welcome to the Ages English podcast. My name is Jack and I am one of the hosts of the podcast. I am here without my co-host social. However, I am not alone. I am with Mary.
00:00:43
Jack
From Malaysia, Hendrick from Indonesia and Leila from Saudi Arabia.
00:00:48
Jack
Yeah, they are my good friends. They come on the show and help me out with these episodes. Today we are doing one more quick chat episode and I'm going to read them a question and then they are going to share their opinions with me. And the question is, do you believe in soul mates?
00:01:10
Jack
That there is one perfect person for everyone out there.
00:01:17
Jack
A soul mate. Just one perfect person for everyone out.
00:01:22
Jack
There in the in the world.
00:01:28
May
Ohh this.
00:01:31
Jack
I saved the. I saved the hard.
00:01:32
Jack
One for for last today.
00:01:34
May
This is so challenging for me.
00:01:37
May
When mentioning about Sonic I I should say that our.
00:01:48
May
Destiny, our or our love life has been.
00:01:53
May
Written in in the destiny, like who will be our partner? Who be our family and so on. So in for that reasons I believe yes, so does exist.
00:02:12
May
The only thing is.
00:02:14
May
When or how is how how will it?
00:02:17
May
Be that is unsure.
00:02:21
May
And will determined by time I guess.
00:02:24
Jack
Right. Because what? What if you what if you don't meet your soul mates?
00:02:30
Jack
What if you what if you almost meet your soul mate like your soul mate leaves the restaurant 5 minutes before you enter the restaurant?
00:02:40
Jack
Or something.
00:02:40
May
So we must.
00:02:43
May
Take it as it has been written.
00:02:47
May
Our creators have.
00:02:49
May
Has decided something else for us, probably.
00:02:54
Jack
OK, so this is may may this, the spiritualist may the May the philosopher may the theologian. Yeah.
00:03:02
May
It's not that.
00:03:13
May
We cannot first go. I want to give.
00:03:15
May
It the person.
00:03:17
May
I want to we we spend my whole entire.
00:03:20
May
Life with that person.
00:03:23
May
Yes, we can plan, but in the end it's still on the creator's hand whether they they want us to be together or not.
00:03:34
Jack
OK.
00:03:37
Jack
Well said, well said. I mean, I think you're right. I I I think a lot of people would agree with you. Let's let's jump over to Layla. Layla, what do you think?
00:03:49
Layla
No, I don't believe in soulmate.
00:03:53
Layla
I don't know. I think maybe I we can meet a lot of good people and they understand us and not only one person should.
00:04:06
Layla
Be the perfect for us. Our for example, for me, I think.
00:04:12
Layla
It depends on many, many reasons. Many events, series of events maybe happens.
00:04:21
Layla
And eventually it shouldn't be only one person. I don't know how to explain that, but I don't.
00:04:30
Layla
Believe it, I.
00:04:30
Layla
Don't believe that it's only one soul mate.
00:04:34
Layla
Maybe it could be a lot of people.
00:04:37
Jack
It could be a lot.
00:04:37
Jack
Of it, it could be it could be in several people in, in your neighborhood, or yeah, it.
00:04:44
Jack
Could be so.
00:04:47
Jack
Yeah, you're you're what you're saying is you're come, you know, we're compatible with lots of different people.
00:04:53
Jack
We have compatibility with lots of different different people. OK, alright, alright, so me is going Mays kind of taking a spiritual approach with the it's up to the the Creator, the overseer.
00:04:58
Layla
It's yeah.
00:05:13
May
I mean, I mean to say yes, many people can understand us. Many people can.
00:05:21
May
Talk to us, be with us. But only one person will be with with us for.
00:05:28
May
The rest of.
00:05:29
May
Like that was what I wanted to find out.
00:05:34
May
Because the people who understand us, they might because from time to time.
00:05:43
Jack
But do you think that person is there's only one person that can be with you for the rest of your life, though, is that is there.
00:05:49
Jack
One soul mate.
00:05:52
May
Probably it will only be one.
00:05:55
Jack
OK, alright, alright.
00:05:58
Jack
Interesting. So Leila saying multiple compatible partners that that are it's possible and may saying there's one soul mate Hendrick, you're the tiebreaker.
00:06:12
Jack
What do you think?
00:06:15
Hendrick
It's interesting for me, I believe in soulmates, and I mean, like, yeah, you can have, you know, like a lot of good people that you have in your life.
00:06:25
Hendrick
I mean, like, at least for the loss. You, you also need, you know, like the soul mate, which is you can spend your time together and Share your story together because, yeah.
00:06:36
Hendrick
I mean, like you, you are human. I mean, if you cannot, you know, like live alone. And you also need, you know, like partners to Share your story together. At least I think that soulmate is like the the right choice for you. Yeah.
00:06:52
Jack
OK.
00:06:53
Jack
Wow, now I'm.
00:06:54
Jack
In a dangerous but I gotta be really careful with.
00:06:56
Jack
My words here.
00:06:57
Jack
I'm the the the only married married one here. So this is this is like walking on land mines, right?
00:07:07
Jack
I got to be careful.
00:07:10
Jack
OK, I'm gonna say.
00:07:12
Jack
I I'm gonna. I'm gonna.
00:07:14
Jack
Say the idea of soul mates is something that.
00:07:19
Jack
People who are together for a long time.
00:07:22
Jack
They say this is my soul mate.
00:07:25
Jack
But they're, but I think what they're thinking is they're thinking backwards, right? They're they met the right person. They built something together because that's the thing. That's the thing about marriage is that when you first get together, you have, there's a lot of you have to do a lot of work because you're you're, you're very you're you're still not.
00:07:45
Jack
Used to living together, you're different.
00:07:48
Jack
And you grow together as time goes by. And so I think after 20 years, you a lot of people say ohh, this is my soul mate. We were. It's destiny that we were together, but I think it's possible that we're compatible with lots of different people and that you when you meet someone that you're very compatible with.
00:08:10
Jack
And then you get married, you you become soul mates, but it's not destiny that brought you together. It's something that you built together. So.
00:08:22
Jack
So so I I might I'm changing the definition of soul mates. You know, my wife is my soul mate because we built something together that's very strong and beautiful. But to say that it was like magic that we were supposed to meet and it was destiny and fate. I don't really believe in Destiny and.
00:08:43
Jack
Debate. I think it was.
00:08:44
Jack
I believe more in coincidence and chance.
00:08:47
Jack
And that so yeah, I may have. I OK, I may have just dug a hole for myself here. I hope I'm not in trouble. Alright. What do you guys think? Does it sound terrible or does it? Does it make sense?
00:08:48
May
Wow. Testing.
00:09:04
Hendrick
It makes sense.
00:09:06
Hendrick
It makes sense.
00:09:06
May
Because you are married. So yeah, you have.
00:09:09
Jack
OK, OK. I just I can only see it.
00:09:12
Hendrick
I think you have a lot of experience.
00:09:16
Jack
Well, here's the thing. Here's here's here's another reason. OK, I've been married almost 20 years. OK, which is a long time. Happily married. And my wife and I get along really well. We're best friends. She's well, she's like my only friend. Really. Except for my online friends.
00:09:32
Jack
You know, she's the only person.
00:09:34
Jack
Hang out with. I've known a lot of people who, you know, we're we're boyfriend and girlfriend or just married and they talk about we're soul mates. We're meant to be together now they're divorced.
00:09:48
Jack
You know what I mean? So I I never talk like that, but my wife and I just kind of keep our mouth shut and we just work hard on our marriage. Keeping it, you know, working together, working hard on the marriage, the relationship to make sure that our relationship is good over the long term. That's a little bit different than soul mates and destiny and.
00:10:09
Jack
Fate, right, dusty and fate is kind of like.
00:10:12
Jack
I'm gonna walk across the street and hopefully no car is going to hit me. And if a car hits me, that was fate. You know? Destiny. I I don't believe in that. You know, I think that's silly. I think you know, working at a marriage, working hard, continuing to cultivate the relationship and.
00:10:34
Jack
And talk to one another.
00:10:36
Jack
Is really important, otherwise your relationship can can fall apart. So I think even even friends of mine who's who thought ohh she's my soul mate. He's my soul mate and now they're divorced. They didn't put in the work and they weren't willing to make the sacrifices. So yeah.
00:10:53
Hendrick
Yeah, I think.
00:10:56
Hendrick
I think they they're, you know, like they're difference because they don't understand each other. Because I think if you are soul mates, I mean you have to understand each other and I mean like your your relationship will be.
00:11:06
May
Longer, but the best solution, the best solution I can say.
00:11:08
Jack
Yeah, well.
00:11:14
May
Will be do not mention called little people. She's my soulmate. She she's my best ever. Things like that. So we just live together happily.
00:11:27
May
Go, go together, learn. Learn about each other. Learn on each other's behavior.
00:11:33
May
And then we will make it so do not.
00:11:37
May
Like show our.
00:11:39
May
Happiness openly here and there so.
00:11:43
May
We just live happily.
00:11:45
Jack
Yes, I agree with you.
00:11:46
May
We have be so proud, yeah.
00:11:48
Jack
Yeah. The more people talk about it, the more they.
00:11:50
Jack
Tell you she's my soul mate. She's my soul mate.
00:11:52
Jack
She's my soul mate, the more I.
00:11:54
Jack
I the less.
00:11:55
Jack
I believe them. I'm like, no, she's not. No.
00:11:56
May
You don't have to.
00:11:57
Jack
She's not. No, she's not. Yeah.
00:11:59
May
You don't have to mention you.
00:12:01
May
You have to mention just.
00:12:02
May
Leave you leave a like.
00:12:04
May
With your partner or your husband or your wife. So that's it.
00:12:10
Jack
Put your head down. Keep your mouth shut. Do the work. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Alright. Well, wow. This was a really enlightening conversation. Thank you guys for sharing this. I it's really interesting for me. This this could turn into an. Am I the jerk episode for our listeners out there is Jack the jerk in this situation.
00:12:31
Layla
What do you think?
00:12:32
Jack
Should I just?
00:12:34
Jack
My answer should have been just yes. I believe in stalemates finished. I tried to answer it honestly, you know.
00:12:43
Hendrick
Yeah, but I think as usual, you you are not, you are.
00:12:48
May
We removed the two also but.
00:12:49
Jack
The Jack, yeah.
00:12:55
Jack
Go to, go to our website and leave a comment. I don't I can take it. I'm a big boy. AZ englishpodcast.com. That's A-Z englishpodcast.com send us an e-mail A-Z englishpodcast@gmail.com and you leave an e-mail for May. Hendrick and Layla too. I'll pass it on to them and.
00:13:14
Jack
They'll answer you, I promise. If you.
00:13:16
Jack
Have a comment?
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Jack
For them.
00:13:18
May
Yeah, I would like.
00:13:19
May
To know if there.
00:13:20
May
Is anyone maybe don't agree with?
00:13:23
May
That would be nice. You know why? Yeah.
00:13:23
Jack
Yeah, you don't have to just write an e-mail to me in social. Yeah, you can write it to may Hendrick and Layla let them yell at them for a while. Yeah. Don't yell at me. Yell.
00:13:33
Jack
At these guys.
00:13:34
Layla
Exactly, exactly. Yeah. Already. Yeah.
00:13:41
Layla
Yeah, settings.
00:13:42
Jack
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00:14:05
Jack
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00:14:08
Jack
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00:14:27
Jack
See you all next time.
00:14:28
May
Thanks everybody. Bye bye.
00:14:30
Layla
Bye. Thanks. Bye.
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