MSP Quote of the Day… pertaining to love
July 26th, 2008 | By Debby
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. - Amy Bloom
Sometimes I wonder how other people fall in love. Not "how" as in "how do they do that?" but how as in "what happens when they fall in love?". I mean, I only know how it is that I fall in love and this is how I do it, or rather this is what happens: I look at their pores. I look at the hairs growing through their skin. I think about the blood coursing through their veins. I think of all of this, and it hits me: how is it that this bundle of nerves, of blood, of organs, of hairs, this body that lifts and falls with every breath… - how is it something that I have hung every hope on? What is this thing - really - that we call love? What is this being?
I wonder if anyone else dissects it this much. Scratch that, I know that they do. But what do other people think or wonder about when they are in love? What do you think about?
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rama Says:
i don’t wonder so much about the biology of love but i am interested in it. i am always amazed, for example, by how much i miss my wife when she goes out of town and i am aware that we are actually suffering a little bit withdrawl from the chemicals that our bodies produce when we are around each other.
i’ve noticed that some people learn a little bit about these things and then dismiss love because of it. it’s that “JUST” they put in front of the knowledge they obtain. “love is JUST…” a chemical reaction, an electrical impulse, a evolutionary mechanism to tie us closer to our mates. i think of the biology more as the mechanics of the miracle, not an absence of the miracle.
what i really wonder in relationships is “what is she thinking about?” i don’t suspect any deep secrets or anything but i’m aware that my inner life is too big and weird to ever really communicate and i wonder what her inner life is like.
Posted on: July 28th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Marcey Says:
When my husband and I are holding each other close and I am feeling deep, intense love for him, I feel like our hearts are joined and that the bodies around our hearts just disappear into the ether.
Posted on: July 29th, 2008 at 3:56 pm