2004-09-20 - 10:37 p.m.
"you're nothing but a concept, kid"
when you feel you are in love, ecstatic creations of endless summers, beautiful forevers, and blissful yesterdays pump through your body faster than adrenaline and more dangerous than sickle-cell anemia.
it's really sick.
love is a drug. a combination of dopamine, noradrenaline, and aldosterone your brain produces when someone deeply attracts you.
this is why one feels elated when they are in love. like everything is blissful and perfect.
then the high wears off.
love is a concept one's brain merely creates.
however, i do believe there is a perfect person for every individual.
and i do believe love is more than a concept for those that find their matches.
it's just something that's in our physiology.
see, we have things in our bodies called pheromones. they are genetic blueprints of our dna our bodies constantly excrete (through blood, sweat, urine, and tears). pheromones are received by others through receptors in the nose. once one's pheromones are received by another, the pheromones are sent to the brain to be decoded. and because, "everything we are and everything we are capable of is in our dna", a person can immediatly be attracted to another just by scent.
you may now wonder why you may be attracted to people of composure completely opposite from yours.
megan, if we like others by who our brains tell us they are through their dna, via pheromones, than why are we sometimes attracted to our opposites?
coming from a biological stand point, it may be because of chemical bonding. although i am not very rehearsed in this area, i do know that when one's dna's compliments another's physically, a bond occurs. two people may be completely opposite, with correspondingly conflicting dna to back it up, but the best matches for each other just because of how their dna makeup compliments the other.so although our brains may trick us into falling in love, our dna can't.
i'm sure psychologists would have much to add or conflict with, but psychologists are for lovers.
compliments of Michael Conroy