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Why do we love each other?
Love is a fickle emotion. Its like being Dory in Finding Nemo except you don’t have short term memory loss but a a helpless desire to feel love.We feel love in the touch of words, in the way the trees sway, in a kiss, in a hug, and even in breathing. We love things, people, animals, art, and any other excess that we can find. But love is dangerous in a way. It is dangerous because it is often the cause of our own demise.
Love is an undefinable emotion that we seek to desperately put a label on, and pursue. Its a complicated creature to understand. But we try to understand it like children figuring out the times tables through mastery of memory. Why we love differs from person to person but the feeling itself will never go away. Where this feeling comes from, the role society twists on it, and how we define it all play a hand in the reason we love in the first place.
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anaïs Nin
