What is Love?

What is love? Is it an urge, emotion or a reaction of the chemicals in the brain? Or is it something entirely different? 

For centuries we have struggled to find the answer to this question and are still in the pursuit. Countless plays, poems, and movies have tried to explain the topic and went in vain. But what we know is that powerful enough to make us create new life or destroy it.

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Ancient Greeks referred to love as the “madness of the gods,” while modern psychologists explain it as a strong desire for an emotional union with someone. Whatever it may be, what we do know is that love is a force of nature, and no matter how much we wish and try, we can never command or dictate the feeling. 

Once it has taken over the control of our senses, all we can do is surrender to it. Our hold over it is just as much as we have on the moon and the stars. Love is also involuntary and drives people like thirst.

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Whether you talk about the passionate love, romantic love, obsessive love or mere infatuation, every culture on earth has been affected by it. But how do you tell if you are in love? How do you know if it’s just a mere infatuation or you have fallen deeply in love? 

When you fall in love, everything about that person becomes extraordinary. The songs they like become your favorite and you fall in love not only with that someone but their everything. The romantic love takes away our ability to notice the negative things about the person and all you see about them pushes you deeper into love.

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Science has its take on the feeling. Scientists agree that it is something that cannot be curated or has an on and off switch. Love has its origin in our subconscious mind. So, we might consider falling in love to be a momentary event, but our brain works hard to analyze and produce the feeling. 

Some also define it as a basic drive that was developed millions of years ago for us to focus our attention on just one partner and start mating for the survival of the species.

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But whatever love may be, whether our subconscious mind telling us to find a partner to mate with or an uncontrollable feeling to date or be in a relationship with someone, it takes control of us unlike anything else in the world. 

Sometimes it may even be interlinked with hate. However, what cannot be ascertained is the fall of the lightning - when will it hit you and sweep you off our feet. Although one thing is there for sure, then you do get involved romantically, the desire to be single vanishes in split seconds.

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What do you think about love? Is it a feeling or a chemical imbalance in the brain? Use the comment section below to share your opinion with us.

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