Red Strings

Writing Prompt:

Some say that an invisible red string is tied around the fingers of soulmates meant to be together forever. As it turns out, you can see these red strings, and have therefore created a highly successful matchmaking business.

When I was asked how long I have been able to see the red strings, it seems all my life. As a baby or very young child, I wouldn’t have known what I was seeing; they were just part of people to me once I noticed they were there.

As I got older, I thought everyone could see them and when I asked my mother about the red lines, she didn’t know what I was asking so just dismissed it as a childish imagination.

as A young child, I never really encountered many people who were looking for or had met their ‘soulmate’. So the red strings were just leading off into the distance and faint. Some were stronger than others but I never really saw anyone with their soulmate so I didn’t see the connections people could make.

Oh boy. My teenage years were when I first started to catch a glimpse of what I was seeing. At first, puberty didn’t mean much except to make me see more strings as other teens grew up and went through puberty and they got very interested in others.

Yes, I can see my own red string. It is just part of my body growing up and only when I was a hormone driven teenaged boy did I start to really seee what they were.

Do you want to know what I see hormone addled teenagers were like in school? The messes of red strings going everywhere as they tried to force connection and make someone their soulmate.

Their red strings would tangle up and faint traces would be reaching out towards the people they are attracted to. Love or lust, didn’t matter, they would tangle up and then I would see some of the red strings meet and match and then break apart as the other teenagers did their mating dances and fell in and out or love or lust day in, day out.

It was a confusing time and made worse because I was just as hormone addled as the rest of them.

Eventually I graduated without too many heartbreaks; but I now started to understand what the red strings were, thanks to a few couples who really were soulmates.

You will never know the sight of seeing two soulmates meeting and realising they are meant to be together. The sight of their red strings shortening and then brightening and becoming cords, ropes and then an unbreakable chain is magnificent. It left me speechless for a couple days when I realised what I saw.

I was at their wedding and helped them celebrate their tenth anniversary last month.

But you wanted to know about my company Red String Soulmates.

Well that is something I decided to open when I saw a couple of people I worked with, and their red strings connected and grew. I thought they looked cute together and pushed them a bit to go out, and I saw their red strings grow and thicken and I realised this could be worth something.

All those other match making companies rely on people telling what they are looking for and they can be mistaken, confused or just lying. I am not any of those. I can really see who they are connected with. And that doesn’t lie.

So I started my company six years ago, relying on word of mouth. I didn’t match anyone for months until I ran into a couple having coffee and noticed their red strings. But they were not really connecting because he thought she was too good for him.

So I stepped in and did a lot of fancy talking and convinced them to give it a shot.

Again, I was at their wedding and he turned out to need her like she did him and they have been successful in their own company and now family. Two little girls.

And that is how it all started.

I spend a lot of time talking to people and helping them follow their strings of fate. It helps that I can see the strings in pictures or on computers. That makes things a lot easier.

And people pay when they know that the person they have met is really the one for them. 100% success rate so far.

So are you interested in where your string leads you miss?

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