I always wondered this but what is love. Is it overadmiration? or is it some delusion? or some thing else. If it is something else then what is it cause no poet or author describes love itself with a clear definition (this aint parent or sibling love you should know what i mean)
Poets 'n' authors? Pfft! You're going around asking the wrong folks. Now, ask any tennis player and they will confidently tell you love is zero, nil, nada, nothing and right they'd be, too!
A primitive instinct for mankind to urge reproduction. Once that sinks in you would be feeling less about failed romantic conquests
Sorry to say this but I coudnt care any less about love I got this doubt cause many romance novels have this also i read them cause it is comedic or too dramatic and works as a good entermainment i can also write stories about it
I have no idea what it is or even if it's a real thing, but this is a nice line about it from a novel Forgot the source, sorry
Was just saying that love is an instinctive reaction but was given by humans a somewhat definite explanation and boundaries. For example, maternal love; parental instinct is engraved in most of mammals and most humans have that as well. But parental instinct is too vague of an emotion and for intelligent creatures such as humans, they desire control and therefore tried putting a definition to the vague feeling of protectiveness and euphoria while seeing their kin/bloodline. Albeit a futile attempt at controlling these 'emotions', it's a step forward I say for the little human creatures.
If you want to slap a scientific definition on things, it's easy to sound dismissive of most things in the world. What matters is what it means to you. Like you can call being happy as the brain releasing a bunch of chemicals. It's true, but why do people strive to be happy? In the future if we could chemically induce happiness in people, would they stop trying to do things they like? Similarly for sadness, anger, excitement and all other emotions. I can't really explain what love is exactly, but it is something I'd like to feel. That's enough isn't it?
Well I guess that's enough until you do unreasonable things that you otherwise wouldn't do normally. Okay I was about to say a lot of stuff until I realized that humans are the most flawed intelligent beings and that just put an end to that idea. I was trying to share some of my views as to why love is not what people think it somehow is and that maybe some emotions we have are just primitive reactions but was given a scope and definition by humans because of how scary it would be if it didn't have one. Kind of like how thunderstorms were regarded as god's wrath back then. I don't know if it really came across as dismissive but I really hate that sometimes people give excuses that they acted due to 'love' or 'lust' or 'anger' and make it sound really righteous and normal which I guess, in a way is normal. I don't know if what I want to express is coming across but it had always been a thought of mine that was really confusing and irritating. Sorry for the tangent maybe?
I am not really against giving it a scientific definition, I actually agree it's necessary, but what I'm saying is that some times the scientific definition is totally insufficient to describe the effect and meaning that "things" have to people, that's all. Accurately defining it isn't going to reduce the number of crimes of passion or the number of people who act irrationally because of emotion. Well it IS called irrational. As for understanding it............. I'll try putting it this way, do you think a person who has never been happy in their whole life really understand what it means to be happy if they don't experience it?
Okay I kinda get what I think I was missing just now during my thought process. I was asking for an absolute to everything in a world where relativity is a widely accepted law. Also the question was thought provoking thank you for that.
It's hard to describe love, but I had a discussion with my boyfriend some time back about it, he tried to ask me why I loved him, or how did I know if what I was feeling was love, and well... Spending each day talking to him makes me happy. I'm smiling a lot more since we started dating. I want to spend my time with him more than anything else. I basically killed my gaming time entirely because I wanna spend this time with him instead. I'm happy when he praises me for my achievements. I'm happy when he achieves something. I'm sad when he is sad. I want to support him when he is in trouble. I get worried at the times he is confused. I constantly think about him even when we're not talking. I think about a possible future with us together... And I can keep on listing more and more things... It's just... What are all those things when you try listing them together? This feeling of wanting to be together, of being happy when you're together, being sad when the other is sad... If that's not love, then what is this? For me, this is love. And I don't think it makes any sense to call it anything else.
I mean, according to what the quote says wont you making someone cry be equivalent to making them sad.