Soul connections rarely look like much on the day. People describe the person they built a whole life with as someone they nearly didn't reply to, or almost cancelled on because of the weather.
The recognition arrives backwards, assembled out of a hundred ordinary evenings rather than one flash across a room.
Worth knowing while you are waiting, because waiting for lightning tends to make a person dismissive of weather. Whoever it turns out to be may already have sent you a fairly unremarkable message about a fairly unremarkable subject. Answer the unremarkable ones.