velcro?

My sister, Chris Stevens, and I had a rather interesting conversation last night. Assume that we have multiple lives (I think we do), and assume we meet up with a lot of the same souls in our multiple lives (it seems like the trend...you know when you've met someone before)....what exactly is it that keeps us meeting up with these same souls? What binds them together? What would make them skip one life with you and meet you in the next? Is it some sort of energetic connection? Some sort of lock and key mechanism? A catalyst that holds you with these people through time (whatever that is)? I'm not sure...not that I really even know what our souls are anyway. Maybe if I knew what they were I could tell how they connect and lock together. Whatever it is, even if that's not exactly how it works, feeling like you've known someone for as long as your "being" has been around is a beautiful thing. Maybe that's what the true concept of soul mates is. It's not one person....its many.