When you eat chocolate, hormones shift around in your brain,
and you get the feeling of being happy. There are lots of things that affect
your moods, which really just means that there are a lot of things that affect
the brain. So is love, the euphoric feeling of extreme happiness due to a
person, just a chemical reaction?
Well yeah. Everything you “feel” is just reactions of
chemicals in your brain. So love fits in to that. But does that have a huge
effect on what we think of as love?
Is it real? The chemicals are really reacting, and it is
really causing you to feel some way, so sure! Why not?
Can we fall in love “at first sight?” If all it takes to
make you feel a strong attraction to someone is a couple of seconds (studies
now suggest less than a second), than there is no reason why not.
So if all this is true, do
we need to be old to feel it? I don’t see why. In college, we generally take
the time to grow into ourselves. This is changing slightly as technology
becomes more prevalent, due to our being tethered to our parents and friends
through phones and the Internet. But one thing that I don’t think that this has
a huge effect on is our relationships. I think that we are still taking college
as a time to grow into ourselves in our sexual and emotional adulthood. In the
next post, I interview a girl with an interesting relationship history and ask
her how she feels about this.
xoxo,
Sean Jesse Parker
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