Our other half

I found something interesting while reading Haruki Murakami's Kafka an the Shore.


According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend, there were three types of people. We weren't simply male or female but one of three types: Male/Female, Female/Female, and Male/Male. Each person was made out of the components of two people. But one day, God took a knife and cut everyone in half down the middle. So after that the world was just divided into male and female. The consequence of this was that people ended up spending their time running around looking for their other halves.

It's a nice way of thinking why we crave looking for that someone that completes us. We are all looking for that someone that was part of us. We often stumble along the way, find the wrong half, and encounter all sorts of problems. But I guess, while all these are happening, your other half is trying to look for you too. So somewhere, one day, two of you will eventually meet up. And that day is when you feel that completeness that you've been searching for.