From the moment when you are born you are taught to believe. To believe in a higher power, to believe in things that are beyond our control, to believe "to believe". Out of this compulsory habit that we are taught, by default we believe in "magic" - that which is beyond logic, that which is unexplained, that what should not be questioned and admired simply because you can't explain it. May be its a form of respect that arrives out of fear of not knowing/understanding what lies beyond.
The extrapolation of this unexplained "magic" is "love". That we have made to our custom suiting. We seek out the attraction and chemistry that we feel that is different from the chemistry that we share with the rest as "love". For many have tried and failed at their attempts to explain "What is love?"
This sheer compulsion for us to feel the need of magic brings us to believe in love, to look for love, to seek out for love. We need to believe that when two eyes meet and a moment where their souls can see each other for the person they really are and are still ready to accept each other irrespective of allll their flaws is beyond logic and hence it is "magic" aka "love".
What certainly doesn't help is the amount of havoc your dopamine and serotonin cooks up in your brain, one might almost say "makes you delusional" but I'm not that one.We explain the "CLICK" moment as love for how else would we explain it? Your best friend too understands your needs but do you feel that you are in that kind of "love" with her/him? Of course not, you have been taught to understand friendship since birth, but love; alas! Even your parents haven't had much luck with that have they? They are also under the same umbrella of delusion of love that every other philosopher has suffered from. Fear the unknown? Put a label on it and make it less scary.
Our need to hunt down the unknown and label it as magic is almost amusing. It's more convenience than "love"; about time we realise we are just muggles.
The extrapolation of this unexplained "magic" is "love". That we have made to our custom suiting. We seek out the attraction and chemistry that we feel that is different from the chemistry that we share with the rest as "love". For many have tried and failed at their attempts to explain "What is love?"
This sheer compulsion for us to feel the need of magic brings us to believe in love, to look for love, to seek out for love. We need to believe that when two eyes meet and a moment where their souls can see each other for the person they really are and are still ready to accept each other irrespective of allll their flaws is beyond logic and hence it is "magic" aka "love".
What certainly doesn't help is the amount of havoc your dopamine and serotonin cooks up in your brain, one might almost say "makes you delusional" but I'm not that one.We explain the "CLICK" moment as love for how else would we explain it? Your best friend too understands your needs but do you feel that you are in that kind of "love" with her/him? Of course not, you have been taught to understand friendship since birth, but love; alas! Even your parents haven't had much luck with that have they? They are also under the same umbrella of delusion of love that every other philosopher has suffered from. Fear the unknown? Put a label on it and make it less scary.
Our need to hunt down the unknown and label it as magic is almost amusing. It's more convenience than "love"; about time we realise we are just muggles.
