What is Love?

I had a strange thought today that people subscribe to their own love theories. Like in psychology, students are presented with many different theorists all believing they have the magic torch that encompasses all human behavior, disorder, thought, etc. Could people have their own developing or developed theories about what love is? That could help explain why there are so many different relationships in the world. Love has never truly been explained or let alone defined. But maybe that isn't what we should focus on but rather how each of us view love. 

What is wonderful about love is that all people can relate to the symptoms and feelings (jealously, butterflies, euphoria, giggles, light-headness, love blindness). Our anatomy professor tells us that love is just neurotransmitters being dumped into a synaptic cleft and sending a message along the next neuron. No matter what happens on a cellular level, having thoughts and feelings can't just be explained by neurochemistry. Because every individual interprets the message differently on a cognitive level. How a person feels about love, and more importantly, what a person believes about love shapes their life forever. 

But how I felt about love when I was sixteen is totally different to how I feel about love today. Does a person solidify a theory when they get married or does it continue to shift and shape? What about if love fails and a person is left alone? Does that person still believe the same things about love or are things turned on their head? Is love a compilation of all experiences or a focused beam in the present? 

I'm never the blogger to just ramble on without giving lists to sink my teeth in. I thought it would be fun to write down love 'theories' that I witness others subscribing to. 

       Some thoughts

Love is being vulnerable 

Love is when everything seems to shine just a little brighter 

Love is knowing you finally have something you don't want to lose 

Love is waking up and knowing they don't care about your morning breath

Love is somewhere between the bar and the bed

Love is having that one person who knows you completely 

Love is friendship plus bliss

Love is someone who makes you laugh and cry

Love is choosing a person to build a life together with

Love is always finding something new and exciting about each other

Love is intoxicating 

Love is an unspoken connection

Love is what the heart craves and the mind twists with

Love is realizing someone might be smarter than you

Love is seeing no flaws

Love is two people who never give up

Love is picking one and saying no to all others

Love is a partner to explore life with

Love is admitting that life is better with someone else 

Love is delighting in every part of another human being

Love is forgetting how life was without the other person

Love is something that makes us weak enough to enjoy and appreciate life

Love is the vibrations you feel when that person enters the room

Love is trusting that the other one loves you too

Love is not being afraid to be a complete dork

         The other ones

Love is experienced by the young and forgotten by the old

Love is a teenage whim 

Love is not strong enough to hold two people together

Love slowly moves onto another person

Love is lost and then found by someone else

Love is what you feel before you know everything about the person

Love is around long enough to produce more love monkeys 

Love is a dream with no guarantee 

Love is renting a new person every week

Love is a game everyone eventually loses 

Love is something invented by civilizations to keep everyone happy

Love was never meant to last a century

Love pretends to be more than just infatuation 

Love is what we label our primal instincts 

Love is what comes right before the horrible withdrawals 

Love devours years

Love always finds new ways of screwing you over

Love eventually gives up and moves somewhere else

Love finally accepts the cats

Love seems to abandon its strongest believers

Love leans over and whispers 'I'm fake'

Love is what sells products 

Hope my dark humor didn't offend you. What do you think is love?

-Mud