• Poglathegrate@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Even if they did the chances of you meeting them are essentially 0.

    I’m going to assume that “soul mate” means that there’s one perfect match for you. One person that is perfect.

    I’m going to assume that you’re hetero.

    There’s 7.888 billion people in the world.

    Finding out how much of the population is gay/lesbian is pretty much impossible, and how “gay” is gay? Exclusively same sex relationships? 99%? What?

    Anyway, let’s ballpark 3% of the population that just doesn’t share your interests in romantic partners.

    That leaves 7.651 billion people

    Breakdown by gender is roughly 50.42% male 49.58% female. I’m happy to have an error margin of just over half a percent and call that 50/50.

    That leaves 3.286 billion people.

    If you were to meet one of those per second, you’d take 121 years to meet them all. Unfortunately only one person has been verified to live that long (Jeanne Calment), so you basically have no chance to meet them.

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      Also, one third of all people live in China or India alone. So of those 3ish billion people, there’s a 1 in 3 chance they live in India or China and likely don’t speak English. It’s so wild that a lot of people’s soul mates grew up in the same neighborhood they did, were exactly the same age, and went to the same school…

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        Then you would have had to spend most of your life meeting one person a second and doing nothing else.

        You’d need to do it while eating

        While poohing

        While having a slash