True Love

Ever since the beginning of time, love has played an enormous role among humans. Everyone feels a need to love and to be loved. Some attempt to fill this yearning with activities and possessions that will not satisfy – with activities in which they should not participate and possessions they should not own. In Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress,” the speaker encounters an emotion some would call love but fits better under the designation of lust for a woman. In contrast, the speaker of Robert Herrick’s poem, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” urges virgins to marry, to make a lasting commitment in which love plays a

In his article “Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain,” Benedict Carey expresses that love is not necessarily an emotion but rather a neurological and physical phenomenon. After comparing new love to mania and obsession, Carey offers evidence of romantic love as a neuropsychological event through the description of the caudate nucleus (a specific part of the brain which produces the neurotransmitter dopamine), explaining the cause of desire and passion in relation to love.

In this global era of evolving civilization, it is increasingly difficult to ignore the fascinating fact about love. Love is a feeling of intimacy, warmth, and attachment. Love is inevitable and it plays a vital role in human life as Janie uses her experience with the pear tree to compare each of her relationships, but it is not until Tea Cake that she finds “a bee to her bloom.” (106).

In our society, falling in love is viewed as an important aspect of one’s life. There are many definitions of love, some being deep affection, an intimate relationship where each person is seen as an equal, or a strong positive emotion towards another person. In Wild Seed, Octavia Butler describes love in terms of selfishness, a need to have someone for personal gain. In doing this, she questions whether love can really be felt in a genuine way. Using the concept of love, and defining it as looking out for one's own self-interest, Butler challenges the current definitions of love.

Love is a powerful emotion that every human being has experience at least once in their life. There are numerous connotations that refer to this emotion, but there is only one kind of love that can make a person change completely in unexpected ways. It is the kind of love that consumes the soul and everything within. Mixed with excitement, adventure, heartbreak, happiness and joy; it is a big ball of feelings, all concentrated in one simple, yet extremely complicated necessity to have, protect, please and give all of oneself to that one person. In certain occasions, love can grow very intense and, consequently,

We live in a society that has increasingly stomped on love, depicting it as cruel, superficial and full of complications. Nowadays it is easy for people to claim that they are in love, even when their actions say otherwise, and it is just as easy to claim that they are not when they really are. Real love is difficult to find and keeping it alive is even harder, especially when one must overcome their own anxieties and uncertainties. This is the main theme present in Russell Banks’ short story “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story,” as well as in “The Fireman’s Wife,” written by Richard Bausch. These narratives, although similar in some aspects, are completely different types of love stories.

Throughout centuries human kind has been engulfed by the constant exploration of what love is, of figuring out the definition of that ecstatic feeling inside of oneself that churns and twists human emotions in every sense. It is in accordance to an individual’s own experience that he or she will define love, thus making it a continuous mystery in its own broad spectrum of definitions. The word “love” has a unique and ardent meaning for every single individual. Though concrete definitions have emerged in history, numerous amounts of people disregard of these and feel the need to be merely satisfied with the purity of feeling and not defining. Raymond Carver’s short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, which continues to puzzle

The article '' love: the right chemistry'' by Anastasia Toufexis efforts to explain the concept of love from a scientific aspect in which an amateur will understand. Briefly this essay explains and describe in a scientific way how people's stimulation of the body works when you're falling in love. The new scientific researches have given the answer through human physiology how genes behave when your feelings for example get swept away. The justification for this is explained by how the brain gets flooded by chemicals. The author expresses in one point that love isn't just a nonsense behavior nor a feeling that exhibits similar properties as of a narcotic drug. This is brought about by an organized chemical chain who controls different

There are many interpretations on the purpose of life. While interpretations of this topic are very subjective, there are those who may argue that life is about trying to find one’s own happiness in the world. There are many ways that make people happy in this world; one of the more prominent ways of achieving happiness is through deep and meaningful human companionship. Still, begs the question: does the need and feelings for love and intimacy change throughout one’s lifetime? Will they grow? Will they waiver? Will they remain the same? These are the questions Steven Loring explores in his 2014 documentary film: The Age of Love.

     In contrast to these fairly pessimistic views on love, the author describes an instance in which a couple found true love. Mel tells an anecdote of an old couple that was admitted to the emergency room after a very bad car accident. The two people were wrapped up in full body casts, and as a result they could not see each other. Mel noticed that the old man was very sad, even

Alain de Botton in “How Fiction Ruined Love” says that our culture’s infatuation on over climatic, romanticized love stories has a shock on our actual lives. In modern culture, few stories manage to convey the complications of a long-lasting relationship. Namely, people often go into relationships with unrealistic and high expectations. Few examples of this are when the going gets tough, couples often clamp under the pressure of everyday life. Ultimately, Alain de Botton argues that love is so much more that just sexual feeling and passion that romantic novels and movies portray it to be.

The human idea of love is quite possibly the most misunderstood in today’s society. Love can be between a man and woman, mother/father and their kids, or even really good friends. However, these relationships of love go through many interactions and stages to start and progress. Many psychological events must occur and be worked through in order to be successful. All relationships must endure the five perspectives of human behavior. These perspectives are biological, learning, social and cultural, cognitive, and psychodynamic influences.

Science has made many advances in the recent decade towards discovering what happens in our brain when we fall in love. Helen Fisher's book Why We Love, is centered around the idea that love is essentially a biological phenomenon, something that can be explained through evolutionary traits and chemical changes in our brains. For example, one of Fisher’s main arguments is that due to chemicals that “bestow focus, stamina, and vigor [we] are driven by the motivating engine of the brain” (72) to fall in love. These chemicals: norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine are responsible for the induduation of emotions that comes with love. Fisher goes on to say that we desire to find a partner because of the “primordial brain network that drives the lover to focus his or her attention on life’s grand prize- a mate who may pass their DNA toward eternity.” Although her idea is plausible, Fisher reduces the complex entity of love to not only a chemical imbalance, but a sort of game in a sense.

What is it about love that makes people search endlessly for it? We are all capable of love, yet more often than not, we seem to have trouble finding it. Often, once we've found it, we have a hard time holding on to it. Why is that?

“The evolution of love is ever changing. Its biochemical foundations and its vital importance to human society are informing and transforming the way we understand ourselves”. TED speaker Helen Fischer states that this expression known as love derives from three basic human neural happenings, sex drive, romantic love, and attachment. Once all of these stages fall into place within the brain, the phenomenon known as love occurs, according to Helen Fischer. The depth of it all depends on how deep, and far the individual has taken the subject of the matter into hand. The concept of love as described by Helen Fischer focuses on the effects of love on the human body and the human brain.