Love
by Mark ReCupido
(Illinois, USA)
In an ongoing (if I don’t get lazy) investigation on human emotion and nature, I’d like to start with everybody’s favorite emotion: love. Haddaway once asked of the world, “What is love?” and ever since then people have tried to figure it out. Some say that it is a battlefield, some believe that it is all you need, and some think that it is that which lifts us up where we belong. Well, excuse me for not being a poet, but I think it’s something a lot less mystic and metaphorical than that. I’m pretty sure it’s just your body releasing dopamine and other neurotransmitters, pheromones, hormones, etc. that make you feel wonderful. But that’s just what my psychology textbook would have me believe. It has lied to me before (I’m pessimistic?) I will give credit where credit is due, though. Certain aspects are magical. Why does our body release these neurotransmitters for the people that it does and why is it so adamant to do so for those people even when you don’t want it to?
Before I begin, let me preface and say that I have no problem with love. It’s a very wonderful feeling. Probably the most powerful. But I think it gets too much credit. People are always saying that love is just so indescribable. Well, yeah, that’s true, but do you know what else is? Hunger. Try explaining that to someone who has never been hungry before. Yet I don’t hear people talking about how magical hunger is. In fact, all feelings are indescribable. That’s why they’re feelings. We feel them, not explain them. Then people rant and rave about how mysterious love is. “Why can’t I stop loving you.” It’s probably the same reason I want to throw up every time I eat blue cheese. I dare you to try and not like the taste of your favorite food. You just can’t do it. Love is the same way. The only difference is that it’s with a person and not a source of calories.
I’ve also noticed that the rules governing love change depending on what it is that would be receiving the potential love. You can take one bite of a sandwich and say that you “love it” and nobody will think that’s weird. But with a human, it’s some big milestone that happens months after you meet. Why are we so lax and loose on our love of foods? It destroys the power and the meaning behind the phrase that you people gave to it in the first place.
Besides, love is a word. I think we can all agree to that. And all words were made by humans. A group of letters can only become a word when it is in the dictionary, which gives the meaning of words. So someone please tell me why “love” is in the dictionary if we don’t even know what the fuck it means. Did they just make something up? That brings to question the validity of all of the other “words” in that book. And if it’s a word that we just don’t know the meaning of, then who is to say that “sodrakaelm” isn’t a word. Also, if we don’t know what love is, why do we tell people that we love them? For all we know it could be something terrible. Stick to what you know. I called somebody a strumpet once because I thought it was the name for a trumpet player; turns out it’s another word for “whore.” Trust me, make sure you know what something means before you use it in a sentence.
So love itself can be explained, the only thing unexplainable, or at least difficult to explain, is why we love the people we do. So, Haddaway, “What is love?” is entirely the wrong question. You should instead be asking “Why is love when and where it is?” I feel that it is very important for me to clear up that misconception, because I’m sick of people saying that love is “when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your french fries without making them give you any of theirs.” That’s not what love is, that’s what love can make you do. Idiots.
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September 14 2008 05:52 am | Uncategorized
September 15th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
lmao Mark i want to meet you in person u must be hilarious,
as for the question as to WHY those chemicals/hormones are released into yur bloodstream (sorry for being a smartass and trying to explain this)scientists think that theres somthing in a person’s sweat that can help other humans subconciosly understand the immunity genes of the owner of the sweat in question. If that sweat happens to contain dominant immune genes that you dont possess as well as some dominant immunity genes that you do posess then you are most likely to be attracted to that person. ———-god imma nerd -_-
September 16th, 2008 at 7:57 am
I guess we teenagers are more infatuated with people than in love.
September 16th, 2008 at 10:12 am
agree with you totally man! keep writing will ya