What is love?
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Love is an artificial construct of the human mind derived from a mix of the feelings of lust and lonelyness.
Love has no real defianble deffinition because it changes from person to person, such as the idea of perfection.
The idea of love is that of a fool. Love always leads to nothing but misery, torment, pain, and sadness, yet we humans feel the need to persue such a self destructive course.
Why do we feel like we have to? Because the human being itself is a creature derived from social habits. A human isolated from others will go insane. ((See "Bat-shit Crazy" for more information)) We humans need contact with others, otherwise we would devolve into something more primal. Our entire being and mental status is based on how other see us.
We love for the need to have a solid connection with another being. Because of this, we oftin encounter hardships when adapting to a life with a person whos hobbys and intrests are completely seperate from our own. Oftin leading to devorce these days, humans can vary much to widely for most to be compatible. Thus, the idea of love is even more romanticized to that we humans can continue searching for, "the one", even though there are billions of humans on the planet ((6.8 billion and raising)) so there can be several hundred of, "The one".
So in summation, "Love" is an idea for the weakminded. But we humans cannot live without it, thus meaning all humans are fools.
Love has no real defianble deffinition because it changes from person to person, such as the idea of perfection.
The idea of love is that of a fool. Love always leads to nothing but misery, torment, pain, and sadness, yet we humans feel the need to persue such a self destructive course.
Why do we feel like we have to? Because the human being itself is a creature derived from social habits. A human isolated from others will go insane. ((See "Bat-shit Crazy" for more information)) We humans need contact with others, otherwise we would devolve into something more primal. Our entire being and mental status is based on how other see us.
We love for the need to have a solid connection with another being. Because of this, we oftin encounter hardships when adapting to a life with a person whos hobbys and intrests are completely seperate from our own. Oftin leading to devorce these days, humans can vary much to widely for most to be compatible. Thus, the idea of love is even more romanticized to that we humans can continue searching for, "the one", even though there are billions of humans on the planet ((6.8 billion and raising)) so there can be several hundred of, "The one".
So in summation, "Love" is an idea for the weakminded. But we humans cannot live without it, thus meaning all humans are fools.
To all of those that tried saying "Baby dont hurt me" you are the specific reason why I put that at the top of the post.
I believe that we both are past the infatuation phase because when the summer came by and we couldnt see each other as often we still kept in touch and maintained our relationship. Sure we would still actually see each other during the summer but she lived about an hour away which put a strain on how often I could see her. Then even beyond that we actually talk about our future and what needs to be done in order to live right.
I was typing the post on an iPod touch at my Uni's internet cafe so my grammar was bound to be off a little.PatrickXD said:
I believe that we both are past the infatuation phase because when the summer came by and we couldnt see each other as often we still kept in touch and maintained our relationship. Sure we would still actually see each other during the summer but she lived about an hour away which put a strain on how often I could see her. Then even beyond that we actually talk about our future and what needs to be done in order to live right.
I have no experience on the subject, but I would assume that like everything else, just because the majority of young people experience puppy love, it doesn't mean they all do.
Damn, you beat me to it!TheLiham said:Definition: "Love" is a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away with a Aratech sniper rifle with a Tri-light scope.
I'm sorry I had to.
Because I am of a scientific mind, I too tend to view love as a chemical reaction that occurs within the human brain. If i may steal a quote from Wikipedia:KorLeonis said:
"Biological models of sex tend to view love as a mammalian drive, much like hunger or thirst. Helen Fisher, a leading expert in the topic of love, divides the experience of love into three partly overlapping stages: lust, attraction, and attachment. Lust exposes people to others; romantic attraction encourages people to focus their energy on mating; and attachment involves tolerating the spouse (or indeed the child) long enough to rear a child into infancy."
katsumoto03: "This is one of the silliest things I've ever heard. Being in love is not a choice, true love (my god I can't believe I just said that) isn't. The choice is whether or not you act upon your feelings."
I completely disagree with you and your own lack of conviction when discussing the idea of "true love" supports my disagreement. True love is a myth perpetuated by Hollywood and perfume companies...and Fabio. It's infatuation. Plain and simple. Infatuation is when you feel like you wanna be with someone all the time. You can't get enough of them. It's like they're a drug and you're addicted. It's a wonderful feeling of exitement and nervous energy that inspires you to do crazy things like buy gifts and give foot rubs and hold in your farts. But this is not love, because it's easy to do these things when you're infatuated. The difference bewteen infatuation and love: infatuation was not your choice, and infatuation ends. Love is something you choose to do, and it only ends when you choose to stop loving. Ask any married couple. They began with that infatuated feeling: the butterflies in the stomach, the sweaty palms etc. etc. But over time it fades. If you bail out at this point and you make a habit of it then you no longer love people. You love the feeling of infatuation. You are a drug addict.
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction".
Meaning you're no longer locked onto each other's appearance, you're locked onto each other's purpose. It's not what you want from each other, it's what you can give to each other. It's about creating a life together. It's about how you can serve each other.
Love is not what you feel or say, it's what you do. Talk is like bootleg handbags in Chinatown: cheap crap. Anyone can say "I love you", but do their actions back it up? You love a person when you decide to love them. If you decide to love your partner, you'll do things for them. Their happiness will be super-important to you. Their happiness will make you happy, or their sadness will make you sad. You will want to love them every day. It is a choice you make each day. If you cheat on them, you did not love them that day. You hurt them, and when you love someone you never want to hurt them...well, maybe a little bit whatever floats your boat, right?
I completely disagree with you and your own lack of conviction when discussing the idea of "true love" supports my disagreement. True love is a myth perpetuated by Hollywood and perfume companies...and Fabio. It's infatuation. Plain and simple. Infatuation is when you feel like you wanna be with someone all the time. You can't get enough of them. It's like they're a drug and you're addicted. It's a wonderful feeling of exitement and nervous energy that inspires you to do crazy things like buy gifts and give foot rubs and hold in your farts. But this is not love, because it's easy to do these things when you're infatuated. The difference bewteen infatuation and love: infatuation was not your choice, and infatuation ends. Love is something you choose to do, and it only ends when you choose to stop loving. Ask any married couple. They began with that infatuated feeling: the butterflies in the stomach, the sweaty palms etc. etc. But over time it fades. If you bail out at this point and you make a habit of it then you no longer love people. You love the feeling of infatuation. You are a drug addict.
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction".
Meaning you're no longer locked onto each other's appearance, you're locked onto each other's purpose. It's not what you want from each other, it's what you can give to each other. It's about creating a life together. It's about how you can serve each other.
Love is not what you feel or say, it's what you do. Talk is like bootleg handbags in Chinatown: cheap crap. Anyone can say "I love you", but do their actions back it up? You love a person when you decide to love them. If you decide to love your partner, you'll do things for them. Their happiness will be super-important to you. Their happiness will make you happy, or their sadness will make you sad. You will want to love them every day. It is a choice you make each day. If you cheat on them, you did not love them that day. You hurt them, and when you love someone you never want to hurt them...well, maybe a little bit
whatever floats your boat, right?