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Originally Posted by Hermione
I used to think it was just bull**** but I'm not so sure now. I mean, there's so many combinations for identity now that I feel like it could be ANYONE but no one seems to fit me very well. I think I might have found my "other half" but that would, to me, imply I'm not a whole person without them but I am whole on my own.
What does everyone else think?
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Not that I think you necessarily need a significant other to justify your existence or anything, but the concept of being a "whole person" sounds silly to me. What does that even mean? I don't think percentages of wholeness were involved in human evolution. In fact I think that if the concept of being a "whole person" makes sense at all then I think the nature of human existence would preclude the possibility of you being one without human relationships since humans evolved as social creatures. Whether or not this means that you need one or more of those relationships to be romantic can be up for debate, but if you think it's possible to be a "whole person" all by yourself then that just sounds like nonsense. The human brain just wasn't built for that.