September 5, 2009

  • What is your definition of love?
    Simply, love is an intense infatuation unrivaled by most others towards another person of the human race.

    Specifically, it's gifts and compliments often given solely for the joyed reaction of the other person. It's getting nervous when around them, the sudden twist in your gut or the quickened heartbeat at the mention of their name alone, an inability to drive them from your mind nearly every day, and probably every other cliché you might have heard about it in your lifetime.

    Often people say that it's the person who is perfectly for you, the single person who was meant for you, etc. That, however, is harshly naïve. While I've solely described the emotional/physical effects of love, it's wholly based on the character, likes, beliefs, and experiences of the other person. Even if you don't agree with all of those, you accept all of them. If that's the case, is it so impossible to think there's someone out there in this vast world with the right enough attributes for you to fall in love with them? My guess is, in the whole world, there is at least 5 people with whom they could fall in love.

    Your love is not necessarily the most compatible person to you, in part, because life just doesn't work that way. The likelihood of meeting a person who is most compatible and workable with is quite low. And, yet, there's probably at least 5 other people right off the bat out there more compatible with you. Further, even if not the most compatible, it doesn't dimish the individual's love for the other person.

    No, love is the person whom you can fall head over heels for. Maybe not the most compatible yet the aspect that people seem to forget the most for relationships is Work (yeah, yeah, I know, I've said it a million times already). They're the person who, when you're with them, you don't want anyone else, more-compatible or otherwise; they're enough.

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Comments (3)

  • love is actually  dopamine, norepinephrine and phenylethylamine  released in our brains.

  • @morbidxshadows - heh, yes, and happiness is largely serotonin

  • Good point about the ideal match but I think it has a lot to do with how you relate to others and how open you are.  If you're normally a warm, compassionate person, it wouldn't be that hard to build an intimate relationship with someone.  Unless you're that unique then it would be difficult to find someone with your specific distinctions.

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