Firstly, you never know how much you need to awaken to your twin flame connection until it happens. Before you meet a twin flame, you don't realize how much your life would be different. You don't anticipate to have another version of it. Whatever your daily life situation is, that is your "normal". You believe you are happy. Maybe not. Maybe you are achieving all your dreams and executing your life goals successfully. Maybe not or somewhat. You are married or going through some rough patches in your relationship. It could be you have children and a happy family or not. You believe you are happy and content with your little corner of the world. No matter what level of success and happiness you are at, you still feel dissatisfied with yourself. It is an "Imposter Syndrome" within yourself. You feel disconnected from your inner child. You are merely existing or drifting instead of feeling grounded. You feel alone even though you seem happy and surrounded by many interesting people. You could be thriving financially but you hate waking up to go to work because you don't feel a sense of purpose and meaning in whatever you are doing. Have you ever felt helpless? When you know you need to make positive changes in your life to recreate your life but you don't feel inspired to do anything. Maybe your Soul is calling you for more growth - this would involve Spiritual Awakening and Growth. You have no idea how to begin. Then a twin flame walks into your life and EVERYTHING changes forever alchemically. Your life is shaken and turned upside down before you settle into a new normal. When you are fully grounded within yourself. A twin flame appears in our lives when we desperately need to answer our "Soul Calling." This requires us to Awaken to ourselves - our true nature - our authentic selves. That is why meeting a twin flame triggers you to go through the Spiritual Awakening process. Secondly, a twin flame teaches us to love unconditionally without fear, obsessiveness, neediness, or negative attachments and expectations. This is why we must Surrender to Selflove first: To give love, you must know love. It must overflow from you to your twin flame and the rest of the human collective. Before you learn to share love unconditionally, it heals you first. Makes you whole. Feeling unconditional love within yourself inspires you to become the authentic version of yourself - your best highest self. I hope my perspective helps. Stay Blessed!