Shared/Connected Souls

I have a question, but first let me give you a little back history. My younger brother and only sibling (Jamal), myself (Boomer), and our grandmother (Anna) have birthdays that are 4 days apart. Nov 13th, 17th and 21st respectively. The three of us have always shared a strange kind of connection. Like clockwork we would call one another at times which seemed random but always coincided with something bad happening to one of us. Jamal lives is Los Angeles, My grandma and I are in Salt Lake City. Jamal has always been a pretty linear person. He makes a decision and has no problem living with the consequences. I have always been overly analytical. Not so much technical, but more practical. I consider myself a student of human nature and probability. Since I could remember my grandma has always been the cohesive component that held our family together.

Jamal and I are the youngest of her 14 grandchildren, and shared a very close relationship with the matriarch of our family. Three days ago our grandmother passed away. She was the unfortunate victim of Alzheimer's. At the exact moment she passed both Jamal and I felt an extremely strong and sudden void inside our physical bodies. It was as if someone literally ripped our chests off and air started rushing in. Since then neither of us has slept longer than two hours a night or shed a single tear, not even at the loss of the woman that raised us from the time he was 5 and I was 17( after our mother passed away ).

After talking with Jamal tonight a few really strange things started to fall into place. He says that after noticing the empty void feeling in his chest he felt confused and caught off guard. He says he took a single deep breath, told himself everything was OK and like that he was able to deal with the strange feeling of his chest suddenly ripped open. Simultaneously I was stopped mid-sentence and lost myself in thought trying to figure out where the feeling originated from and why. Sherlock Holmes once said that " If you have exhausted all logical possibilities, then the illogical must be the solution." With that said, I'll explain my theory. I am starting to believe that the three of us share/shared a single soul and each of us was/are a representative of a specific aspect of that particular soul. Jamal is the decision maker, I am the logic, and our grandma was the emotion. Since she has passed both of us have become introverts only have conversations that last longer than 5 minutes when we talk to each other. Jamal says that everything he has done lately, even something as mundane as blinking, has been placed on a to-do list in his mind and he visualizes it getting checked off. I, on the other hand, haven't been able to stop thinking. I analyze every single thing I lay eyes on. I visualize every single component of it, disassemble it in my head, reassemble it, then question its function and practicality. It seems like the loss of the emotional portion of our single soul has amplified the areas that are still occupied. Am I dead on with my theory? Am I in the ballpark with it? Or have I completely missed the mark?[quote]