It is commonly said that the cure to all the ills and wrongs in the world all lie in word-love. What is this love that we have almost claimed its exclusivity to humans? Could it be a science, an art or both? Whoever invented the phrasal verb “falling in love” must have been a genius sent from Flora. Despite the fact we use the term “lovebirds” for our lovers, we are still not very certain if the birds and other animals do actually fall in love. According to Sigmund Freud, we are never as defenseless against suffering as when we are in love. For those of us who may be a bit more pragmatic when it comes to science, we would love to subject it to all the experimental tests as there are necessary. Whatever the nature of love, does it all mean the same thing to everyone? Does the physicist see in its nature the same old controversial wave-particle duality of light or does he or she forget about time and space when the love thunderbolt comes crashing from the sky? Does the strong intermolecular attraction between bonds in chemical reactions ever help the chemist conceptualize the strong mutual force of attraction commonly said to exist between lovers or it simply does not generate in him or her enough wonder to measure the energy contained in such sexual attractions. Even as armed as the microbiologist and physician are with all the Petri dishes, microscopes, reagents and stethoscopes, it has become almost impossible to diagnose whether the so called love lies in the head or in the heart. What about the artist? Does he see more colors in the rainbow than there are naturally when seen through the rose colored spectacles of love? Does the feeling the one feels when with the loved one really capable of slowing down the tides of time Some group say love is an illusion and yet another say it is a delusion. Whatever this love is, I beg we dare demystifying it for the sake of our sanity for it has always puzzled the best our intellects.
The Essay on What Love Is
Love is when you can't stop thinking about her. Love is when you find yourselves holding hands and neither remembers initiating the contact. Love is when she comes over to your place and remembers a carton of milk for breakfast cereal. Love is when you find yourself having a great time clothes shopping, just because you're together. Love is when you get some great news or some sad news and the ...
The power of love is simple. The way we humans pass on our genes is through sexual reproduction. People with genes that somehow made them disinterested in
having sex never had children and therefore didn’t pass on those genes. They may have been wonderful, even extraordinary people. All their other genes may have been great genes-that made them kind or generous or strong or brilliant or beautiful- but if they didn’t have sex, those genes were lost forever. People with genes that inspired sex and attracted a partner had sex and had children. The children had children of their own and down to us. Their other genes may have been rotten- they may have made them mean or selfish or stupid-but it didn’t make any difference, their genes were passed on to the other generations. This is the ineluctable logic of evolution, the organizing principle of life. Evolution explains why we are genetically programmed to feel so strongly about love, but it doesn’t say anything about how the genes work (Hamer and Copeland162-163).
Romance may be nothing more than reproductive filigree, a bit of decoration that makes us want to propagate the species and ensure that we do it right. But nothing could convince a person that there isn’t something more at work- and the fact is, none of us would want to be convinced (Kluger 29).
When a man and woman hungrily push their bodies together, they are not thinking about evolution even if they are scientists. At the tremulous moment of orgasm, a man’s thoughts are not about passing on his genes. Such a sophisticated calculation could come only from the cerebral cortex, the most recent and highly evolved part of our brain. Since animals were feeling the urge to have sex long before they could think about such matters, even before they realized that sex was connected to reproduction, those “animalistic sex thoughts” must have been controlled by the limbic system, the more primitive part of the brain that serves the seat of emotion. To guarantee their survival, the genes found a clever trick. Instead of appealing to our higher sense of calling, or our duty to continue the human race, the genes made sex feel good, real good. Genes code for the millions of touch receptors in the genitals and for the nerves that connect them to the brain, the most important sex organ (Hamer and Copeland163).
The Term Paper on Line Between Tough Love and Child Abuse
Poets and authors have tried to define love for centuries, whereas scientists have only recently started. Many of us know intuitively that love is a major purpose for living; (Blueprint, 2013) that connection is inherent in all that we do, and without love, we cannot survive as a species. But what is love, and how do we know when we're in it? First , let's start off with what love isn't. If ...
All is fair in love, and love knows that, and love conquers all with anything it can get its tender talons into, at forty strokes per minute. Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths and love them to death (Angier 321).
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Angier, Natalie. Woman: An Intimate Geography. New York, U.S.A: Peter Davidson Book,
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Hammer and Copeland. Living with Our Genes: Why They Matter More Than You Think.
2nd ed. New York, U.S.A: Macmillan, 1999.
Kluger Jeffery. “The Science of Romance” Time (4th Feb. 2008) 29.
