Love

Remember that last blog about addiction? Well guess what...uh huh, you guessed it! Love is actually an addiction in a sense. We are hard-wired to love because we need to love our own child, and typically it's easiest to care for a child if their are two, so those two must have a reason to stay together. Love is a powerful and consuming emotion. Don't take that negatively, because love is amazing. Love is a way to connect with someone, enjoy them. Love motivates us. It exhilirates us, and it is the only thing keeping our species alive, if you know what I mean. Most love is mental, but there are the physical aspects of it. Love doesn't have to be with a spouce though. It can be with a best friend, with a starving child. You feel love with almost everyone. Granted, there are those people who you absolutely cannot love, because you just don't fit. Whether you see love as beautiful thing, or a way to keep us living, you're right.
Love is actually an emotion we feel, which comes from our brain. Our brain precieves it as pleasureful, and wants more. This is why we strive for love. There are certain things, most pertaining the senses, that contribute to love, and partially libido. These include:

1. Appearance-when someone is attractive to another, it can stimulate, and possibly remind the on looker of a pleasureable experience. It is said that one might enjoy the appearance of someone that might look somewhat similar. Sounds odd, but experiements have proven that it is possible.


2. Personality-a nice person never hurts. Once again, it is said that one might enjoy the personality of themselves, or more often, their mother.


3. Pheromones-this is a smell that attracts the opposite sex. Want to know what it smells like? Men smell like cologne, women smell like perfume. Only, not nearly as strong. Colognes and perfumes were created to stimulate the pheromone senses.

There are 3 stages to love. Lust, Attraction, Attachement. Lust is the sexual need, or libido. Attraction is the want to be with the person. Attachement is the want to never split away from the person. Most often, in a romantic relationship, lust is the first stimulating stage. In friendships, it is attraction.

Love has its effects. It is a feeling that is hard to understand, hard to explain, but amazing to feel. Not all people have the pleasure of feeling it, some people spend their life looking for it. It can cause trouble, but once it's found, it cannot easily be lost.