What is Love?

[Vault101]

A mental Illness thats makes us do unreasonable and crazy things

 

[Cowabungaa]

Love is like oxygen.
Love is a many splendored thing.
All you need is love.

Yet it can slowly kill you at the same time. It's simultaneously the best and worst thing in the world. I don't ever want to go without the love I'm feeling right now, but it's absolutely tearing me apart and it hurts like hell.

Love is imprisonment, a malefic, disgusting cage in which our brains would have us pace, like a captured tiger.

And I thought I was bitter...

 

[Deguasser]

...baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more?

But all jokes aside, for me its the feeling you get deep in your stomach, like butterflies, everytime you see the person you love, to me at least.

It's different for everyone though.

But for all emotions they're strong for me because of something called bi-polar disorder.

 

[Deguasser]

And you can die from heartbreak also, if it's really severe.

It's called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, it weakens the muscle in the heart, it's caused by your brain producing too much adrenaline and/or epinephrine.

 

[Halceon]

Now with internet memes cleared of our minds, let us think for a second, why do our emotions controle us? Why can't we controle them?

They do? We can't?

Sorry, i don't think we have even remotely similar memeplexes.

 

[thahat]

scientifically speaking, its scent, lust, and endorphines.

verry nearly, thats lust, and being 'in love' the stuff you get a first without even knowing the person
but after some time, that can easilly fade if you dont match up in other stuff aswell, humor, personality, stuff you like, etc.

to me, love is the knowledge that someone is the most important person in the world to you. and you dont have a doubt in your mind that you are theirs.

 

[Mrrrgggrlllrrrg]

Well first what are emotions, it is the complex psychophysiological experience of an individual's state of mind as interacting with biochemical and environmental influences.

Adolescence is really a giant cocktail of these psychophysiological experiences, everyone who ever went through puberty has gone through almost everything you're experiencing, it's normal.

As you get older it will calm down and you'll see.

Now trying to get a girl, or girls, out of your head that you are infatuated with well if you're thinking about it all the time you wont get over it.


Now what is the emotion of love? Well to be honest it is just a bunch of biochemical reactions that give you a warm feel good feeling, without reciprocation the first 'high' is really the best it gets and then you crash but in a loving relationship that feeling goes on until the bonding stage and then the parental stage. After the parental stage it can either continue or it can fade. Just to save my own ass this is really a very simplistic run down and most likely a long winded post would just end up boring.

 

[kouriichi]

Love cannot be conqured by age, race, distance, or creed.
You will know love, when you dont find it. It will find you. Kind of.

It will just be like fate. Ive been with the same woman for 3 years. I met her in a bondage Rp. ((Not one of those creepy cyber ones though. She just said she'd pay me gold to post in the thread for a while)) Basically we started off friends for the first year, and them evolved quickly into something more then that.

Love happens by both fate, and luck. Its a challanger the appears randomly, and you have to fight and unlock it, because you may never get the chance again.

Love is a Cave with no zubats. I have no clue how that relates to love but its so much fun to add that phrase to things.

Love is MAGIC~! ((or magicka depending on your game preferance)) It fills you with a fire that isnt bad. ((GRAAAAHHHH! FIRE BADD!! FIRE BADDDDDDDD!!!!)) You will feel a warmth like no other when your with him/her. ((thats what she said))

Love is like rolling a natural 20. Perfict. You wish you could keep it forever.
He/she will be the +2 to your 2d6.

And yes, as stated before, "Love is making a shot to the knees of a target 120km away using an aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope". ((Meatbag))

 

[KindOfnElf]

I'll just leave this here:

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love." - Neil Gaiman

 

[Pegghead]

as Arnold Rimmer once said:

'love is an invention of bank managers designed to make you overdrawn'

I'm prettty much just quoting this for obvious reasons, and to give this user of clearly great taste a shameless plug

To me love is like...the force. At first it can and preferably does seem like a mystical, uniting force that we can all experience should we try hard enough, some use it for good, others for evil. And if you want to look like a cold, emotionless asshat you can delve deeper and state that it's really just so much hopped up biology.

 

[Uncreation]

One last thing...

Why has God punished me to me a introvert?

To challenge you. To force you to overcome or be miserable. To make the journey worth more and to make your success all the sweeter.

Yeah, he is a sadist.

On topic: I don't know. Wish i could purge my feelings. Or at least my libido. *sigh*

 

[clipse15]

Ok so I'm going to be the girl to say it... you don't "love her" you like her, but love comes with dating, and knowing if you can stand the person. Also I've had friends that have done that broke down and confessed their love for me they had for years, and I ask them why? They go on to tell me about all this stuff of I'm beautiful, and talented yadda yadda, bullshit I hear every time some guy hopes to get in my pants. Don't downgrade yourself, approach her, ask her if she'd like to do something, not a date mind you! We don't want to suddenly go on a date without knowing if there is some sort of romantic, and sexual chemistry. Be confident with yourself, and find out if you actually "like her". Make a move, it's what I did to a friend I've known for 5 years, and we are now really hitting things off. I liked him for a while, but I wanted to know -him- beyond as a friend.

By the way. I'm such a complete hopeless romantic, someone quoted the Love is a splendor, Love is like oxygen quote from Moulin Rouge and I SWOOOON like a school girl. Approach her, have an open heart, and make her laugh! If things don't hit it off, then someone else is waiting for you, as you are for them.

This is so true, I can't stand people who say thing like "OMG I'M IN LOVE WITH HER BUT ALL SHE DOES IS DATE JOCK ASSHOLES!!" Love should develop between two people. Y'all need to stop putting these girls on a pedastal, you'll only be disappointed

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

This is what I have come up with

Love is something you cannot discuss anywhere, or your balls will be blown up. pirod. don't ask.

 

[Nieroshai]

Love is not an emotion. It's a relationship, a bond. What you call love is a combination of infatuation and wanting attention. Maybe even a little lust. But love is different. You can love someone you aren't attracted to. You can't love someone you've barely interacted with. You can love a guy if you're a guy, and still be straight. I love my brothers. I love my girlfriend because we've become as close as brother and sister, and even if my junk was cut off tomorrow I'd still love her. Could many of you say the same? We love each other because we know each other inside and out(I see you snickering. That was not a sexual reference).

 

[Nieroshai]

as Arnold Rimmer once said:

'love is an invention of bank managers designed to make you overdrawn'

I'm prettty much just quoting this for obvious reasons, and to give this user of clearly great taste a shameless plug

To me love is like...the force. At first it can and preferably does seem like a mystical, uniting force that we can all experience should we try hard enough, some use it for good, others for evil. And if you want to look like a cold, emotionless asshat you can delve deeper and state that it's really just so much hopped up biology.

You're using that word again. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Seriously, the feeling you keep referring to is not love. Love survives conflict, but what you describe doesn't survive a month in most cases.
I get what you mean though, people get hopped up on feelings for good and bad reasons, and there's a lot of people who degrade it by calling it an arbitrary chemical reaction. This takes away from free will, which there is proof for. I can master my feelings, and even if they are chemical, they don't rule me unless I let them.

 

[Blackality]

I could link to one post I made on my blog, however it's not in English.
Anyway, It's the most overrated thing ever, exploited by everyone and you are the victim.

Also, leads to teen angst. Which is very, very fucking annoying.
Sexualized love I'm talking about. I absolutely love Planescape:Torment and Portal.

 

[Silver_Runner]

Pretty much before you say YOU LOVE YOUR BEST FRIEND go date her, go date other people, experince what a shitty relationship is like, good one, then a great one!