So I was reading some friends comments on FB and this is what I was seeing...
Q:Why do people pretend to know why they love someone? As if its something that words can explain or the mind comprehend.
Friend 2: Don't be silly, sometimes that is an answer that a person does know. I agree, there is always more to it. Kinda hard to eliminate the the possibility of the knowledge for the root of your own feelings
Friend 1
biggrin on't be such silly, -----. You can explain why you like a person. Why you respect them.Why you want to be around them. Why you think they are so great and yes those things do have to do with love. But it is impossible to explain the actual love its self. Think about someone you love. You might say you love them because they are smart, funny or smell like jolly ranchers. But this is not why you love them This is why you like them. Love comes from the heart and we rarely have a choice in the matter. It has to do with a dance with two compatible energies.
Friend 2: Silly ----. You go to an art gallery and see half a picture. I take that closer look and see a bit more
Friend 1:Well you don't have to accuse me of lacking depth and focus. Lol I'm actually not denying the concept of love. I wholly accept it to the best of my ability. I just understand that some things are just beyond spoken language.
Friend 1:True, sometimes the language is primarily sexual. Jk.
Friend 3:It's hard to explain love.
Friend 1: --- gets it.
Friend 3:There's also to types of love. Being in love and loving someone.
Friend 4: Kind of why I avoid it I guess. I rely on knowledge to lead since subconscious decision has led me astray. And by subconscious decision I mean my perception on where love led me, although it seems to be a little different for everyone I've met. In the end I've never been able to make sense of it
Friend 1:F3: Very true and I would dare say being in love may be the more complex of the two. F4: I appreciate your comment. It was beautifully honest and relate able. But don't give up. I imagine a life of denying love is, in the end, more painful than the few heart breaks it requires. Not to sound cheesy. But I do think love is something worthwhile.
Friend 5:Love and all feelings can be explained by chemicals and Synapses firing off in your brain. I love who I love because when I was with that person my brain made that chemical and formed an attachment to them.
Friend 1:But why are those chemicals released? You don't love someone because of firing in the brain. That happens because you love someone.
Friend 5:The chemical is released because your brain thinks "I like this person or like something this person does" so it releases the chemical for love and attachment. And in cases of Stockholm Syndrome the chemical for attachment is released to soothe the brain of the stress of being a captive.
Friend 1: Yeah but no. You are seeming to suggest that attachment and love are one in the same.
Friend 3:Attachment and love are two different things
Friend 1:That's what I think too.
Friend 5:No I'm just using Stockholm Syndrome as an example of how it works.
Friend 1:Oh gotchya. I completely agree on the Stockholm part.
How would you respond to this? Or would you respond at all?