LINKED It had always been here. The warm comfort in me that wasn't mine. The soft voice that would calm me down when I was furious, cheer me on when I shook with fear and sing me to sleep when my heart was broken. That voice, that feeling of comfort, was a fragment of my Soul Mate's #life force. Everybody was born with somebody else's Comfort. And everybody was meant to meet the owner of that Comfort - their soul mate. My parents possessed each other's Comforts and they were Soul Mates. They practically crossed seas to find each other - my mother belonged to New York and my father Shanghai. The power of being Linked - being Soul Mates - is powerful and can do almost anything to keep Soul Mates together. Even things like Death need the help of Chance and Luck to tear Soul Mates apart. But my parents were not lucky like most of the other people in the world. My father went missing after his plane went missing in the middle of its flight. But he is probably dead. It has been almost two years since he failed to come home. My mother never felt his Comfort again. Your Soul Mate's #life force does not get replaced by another one. So if you lose your Soul Mate, they are not every coming back. Losing your Soul Mate is the most devastating thing that could ever happen to you. It is worst than being born with no Soul Mate - just like my elder brother was. So I never imagined it happening to me, in fear that if I even think of it, it might happen. But today I woke up, sweating, panting, crying, screaming his name. I desperately searched but I could not find it. I could not feel his Comfort in me.