Love

[Canadamus Prime]

Love?
"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

Bullshit! Biochemistry be damned, I've been in love and I've eaten chocolate and they feel NOTHING alike.

 

[FalloutJack]

Love is a condition that makes you crazy, but it's far far better than sanity.

 

[Astoria]

Love is both the best and worst feeling someone can have. If the love is returned you feel like you're invincible but if it's not it feels like the world is crashing down on you.

 

[SonicKoala]

Love?
"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

This is the kind of thing that people who HAVEN'T been in love say

That's pretty patronising of you. Eating chocolate releases endorphins. So, technically, if one were to consume a TRUCKLOAD of the stuff, it'd be a very similar feeling indeed.

No, that'd probably make you feel physically sick before you actually ate enough to release enough endorphins.

 

[ZiggyE]

Love?
"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

This is the kind of thing that people who HAVEN'T been in love say

That's pretty patronising of you. Eating chocolate releases endorphins. So, technically, if one were to consume a TRUCKLOAD of the stuff, it'd be a very similar feeling indeed.

No, that'd probably make you feel physically sick before you actually ate enough to release enough endorphins.

Eating that much of anything would probably make you sick.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

Love is the thing that I have for my friends and family that I don't always have for myself when Im coming down hard on myself for something I've done or that's happened to me. It has kept me going during the times when I was at my lowest when I was thinking the most of hurting or even killing myself...but the immense love I have for my friends and family as I've stated keeps me going even in the worst of times. Its a thing I cherish from those that matter to me and its a thing that I seek to find to be shared with in a girl that's out there somewhere that is perfect for me that will love me as much as I hope to be able to show her my own love for her

 

[Everin]

Its that warm feeling you get when youre with them and that desire to be with them when theyre not around, not to do anything more then talk for hours and forget where you are and have your whole word filled by this one person who you can trust with everything and anything and you both feel at home in each others warms. When you see them smile you smile too and when theyre sad you desperately want to make them happy again. And love is also being in love with your best friend.
Edit: Of course, thats love with your significant other. There can be other kinds of love too, like family love

 

[there is no spoon]

Love is a motivation to live. Love is food for the soul and poison for the mind. Love is a complicated paradox, and yet it can be the simplest affirmation; the knowledge that what you feel comes from only this person. Love can wear many guises and can be worn by many fraudsters. Love is an elusive beast, often mistaken for brother lust. Love cannot be explained or defined, cannot be contained or constrained. Love is a primal force that keeps the human spirit alive. Love is something you feel when you are with your muse, whether spoken or no; something that you know only you can gleam from that person. Love can create wild fantasies of escapism and delusion, places of happiness of bliss. Love is the greatest treasure of life, the cruellest of tortures. Love is something i would never surrender, nor give anything in the world to substitute. Love is acceptance of pleasure and pain, of ecstasy and enmity, of desire and determination. Love is forsaken by those too afraid to embrace it. Love dances with hate, and i dance in tune to their beat. Love is a timeless chorus. Love is my definition of happiness.

Wow, that was incredibly poetic and one of the best things I have read in quite some time.

O.T. Love, in it's simplest form, is a personal experience that only the person experiencing said emotion can actually quantify and explain. Love is different things to different people and thus is actually a subjective experience. No one person holds the explanation to what love is. You will have to decide for yourself. Good luck, friend.

 

[Freechoice]

What is love to you?

To me, love is a genuine feeling, the greatest feeling. The feeling that makes just a second with her worth the universe. Love is not scientific or religious to me. Love keeps you warm, love keeps you together no matter how far away you are from each other. Love makes wherever she's staying home to you. Love is simply knowing (even if your close to death) if she's alright, you'll have a smile on your face. It makes the darkest days sunny and the coldest night warm.

What's love got to do with it? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCBttS_y7lE]

 

[GrizzlyFlip]

Love equals a good sandwich and a glass of whiskey, preferably Jack Daniel's. Hell, make it a bottle.

Signed:
Typical College Guy

 

[MyFooThurTS]

"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."
Nietzsche.

Love is a biological impulse present in monogamous animals which is effective in the maintenance of a bond between the male and female parents until the offspring can care for itself. The nearer the parents come to this event the less resilient their love for each other becomes. This is why couples with a large number of children love each other with a more sincere passion than other couples. You will find amongst older married couples that their connections revolve not so much around love but fear; fear of despair (The final crisis of human development is integrity versus despair; maintaining a relationship enforces integrity and staves off despair).
Love fades.
Love is common.
Love is a product not of the Freudian Ego or Super Ego, but of the Freudian Id.
Still, it can be fun.
And that's my opinion...

 

[SonicKoala]

Love?
"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

This is the kind of thing that people who HAVEN'T been in love say

That's pretty patronising of you. Eating chocolate releases endorphins. So, technically, if one were to consume a TRUCKLOAD of the stuff, it'd be a very similar feeling indeed.

No, that'd probably make you feel physically sick before you actually ate enough to release enough endorphins.

Eating that much of anything would probably make you sick.

It's nice to see that we agree on the subject

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Love is when you can care for someone and still want to help them and be close to them, even if they've done everything in the world to deserve your hatred and anger.

To all of you saying "love is the slowest form of suicide" and "the world would be better off without it"... I pity you to the utmost extreme.

I agree with the sentiment regarding the cynics.

Love is watching her poop and not caring. Seeing her scream in pain as the life you created together tears her flesh and yet you're both excited about it (yes, I am a fairly recent father). It's also knowing that she will be there to hold you, kiss you, make love to you, and to laugh at stupid movies together.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Probably outside the general demographics here.

You don't know what love is until you have children. Watching your little one sleep, for the first time, that's when it hits, like a hammer.

I've got a 4 month old and I know exactly what you mean. You want to do anything and everything for those little poop-factories.

 

[NathLines]

Love is probably my utmost form of respect for a woman. Love is of course never the same for different persons. The love I hold for one person is not the same kind of love I hold for another.

 

[justnotcricket]

Love?
"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

This is the kind of thing that people who HAVEN'T been in love say

That's pretty patronising of you. Eating chocolate releases endorphins. So, technically, if one were to consume a TRUCKLOAD of the stuff, it'd be a very similar feeling indeed.

Right down to the extreme nausea and redecoration of your immediate surroundings in 'hint of stomach contents?' ;-P Actually, if you've never asked someone out before, might not be too far off...? =P

Yes, endorphins are involved. But they're not all there is to love, you can take that from a chemist, who loves =) Even your quote has the qualifier 'Biochemically no different...'. I'm not saying you've never loved - I am just personally of the opinion that it's much nicer to know about things like biochemistry, and then ignore them and just let them do their work, rather than focusing on them and letting them suck the fun out of things. Unless biochemistry doesn't do that for you, in which case carry on, carry on...

 

[ZiggyE]

Love?
"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

This is the kind of thing that people who HAVEN'T been in love say

That's pretty patronising of you. Eating chocolate releases endorphins. So, technically, if one were to consume a TRUCKLOAD of the stuff, it'd be a very similar feeling indeed.

Right down to the extreme nausea and redecoration of your immediate surroundings in 'hint of stomach contents?' ;-P Actually, if you've never asked someone out before, might not be too far off...? =P

Yes, endorphins are involved. But they're not all there is to love, you can take that from a chemist, who loves =) Even your quote has the qualifier 'Biochemically no different...'. I'm not saying you've never loved - I am just personally of the opinion that it's much nicer to know about things like biochemistry, and then ignore them and just let them do their work, rather than focusing on them and letting them suck the fun out of things. Unless biochemistry doesn't do that for you, in which case carry on, carry on...

Not sure if you accidentally quoted me with that, but I wasn't the one who made the original post.

 

[justnotcricket]

Love?
"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

This is the kind of thing that people who HAVEN'T been in love say

That's pretty patronising of you. Eating chocolate releases endorphins. So, technically, if one were to consume a TRUCKLOAD of the stuff, it'd be a very similar feeling indeed.

Right down to the extreme nausea and redecoration of your immediate surroundings in 'hint of stomach contents?' ;-P Actually, if you've never asked someone out before, might not be too far off...? =P

Yes, endorphins are involved. But they're not all there is to love, you can take that from a chemist, who loves =) Even your quote has the qualifier 'Biochemically no different...'. I'm not saying you've never loved - I am just personally of the opinion that it's much nicer to know about things like biochemistry, and then ignore them and just let them do their work, rather than focusing on them and letting them suck the fun out of things. Unless biochemistry doesn't do that for you, in which case carry on, carry on...

Not sure if you accidentally quoted me with that, but I wasn't the one who made the original post.

Oh, I meant to quote you, in terms of your comment about eating a truckload of chocolate, then my speculation that it would make you ill instead of in love ;-) And then I guess I continued on with regard to the person who originally posted that love = chocolate. Sorry for any confusion! =)

 

[Xixikal]

When love is in the air I put a gas mask on.
That stuff is insidious and twisted, it can drive people to do crazy things.

Compassion, fortitude and pride, however, are much more reasonable concepts. Ones that don't involve obsession, which love is clearly full of.

 

[AroLombardi]

Love is the slowest form of suicide.

What made this especially funny to me is that it was the first thing I saw after the inspirational original post.