half orange

The other day, someone said I was going to find my "half orange" in LA, apparently a Spanish idiom (media naranja) meaning "soulmate." For some reason, it made me think about this quote, which is not about soulmates at all.

"The future is that which — tomorrow, later, next century — will be. There's a future [le futur] which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future — l'avenir, to come — which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future: that which is totally unpredictable, the Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future beyond this other known future, it's l'avenir; in that it's the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival." - Jacques Derrida