Began to watch the movie Timer, where people are given the option to get a a timer implanted into their arms. What this timer does is it counts down the days, months, hours, minutes, and seconds till you meet your soul mate. Your timer will only activate once your soul mate has a timer implanted as well. I found this to be an interesting concept and poses quite the question. Would you want a timer that told you when you were going to meet your soul mate? Oh I forgot the most important, once it counts down to the 24 hours before you will meet your soul mate and a little bell goes off with this cute little tune once you lay eyes on them. So there is no doubt that they are your soul mate.
The benefits, of course, are that if you were with your soul mate, you would know instantly. No question, no doubt, no reason to fear because this person is the one. You may not see it instantly or you may not even like this person when you meet them but if your counter is done and goes off for this person they are your soul mate.
But what if you love someone and the two of you decided to go and get timers and then your timers didn't match up? Would you be sad but also reassured in knowing that you are going to meet your true soul mate by the time your timer says? What if every part of your being told you that the person you were with was your soul mate but the timer disagreed with that idea? Would you ignore the timer and stay with the one you love? Knowing full well that at any time you would meet your real soul mate and the cosmos would meld you together. Breaking the heart of the one you are with, the one that you at least care deeply about. And would you just fall out of love with the one you are with or continue to love them and your soul mate?
This technology does not exist, and I really can't see it becoming a need anytime to make such a device, but just imagine all the people that would buy something like this! All the people on sites like e-harmony for start. And apparently that's a lot of people these days. In essence, e-harmony is the closest thing we have to a timer. It takes information about our personality and matches us to people that we work for us. The same with the timer except when this person signs up for e-harmony, you get an email and decide when you will meet. With the Timer, fate decides.
Do we need something like a timer? At least if we had them, there would never be any doubt. You would never wonder if there was someone better for you out there or wish that you had dated more. But are you not suppose to feel that way with your soul mate anyways? And what if your timer never activates or sets for when your 80? Would you wait for you soul mate to come into your life or just go with what your given? They may not be your soul mate, but what if they made you happy? Shouldn't that be what really matters? If you are always looking for your soul mate, you may always be alone. And if they are not your soul mate at the time you meet, that doesn't mean that they won't be later. Then you would have passed them up simply because they didn't fit your list perfectly.
So the question is, would you get a Timer? Or would you leave it up to you and fate to find your soul mate?
