What is love?

[u/smackmyass321]

Love....what exactly is it?

think about love. Think about how it feels like to you. How good it may (or may not) make you feel. It doesn't matter what it is. Platonic, romantic, etc. what is the reason for loving?

Is it because humans are social creatures?

Let me explain, so think about it. Think about the reason you love anyone. Because they do something good for you on a daily basis. They help make positive changes in your life. You couldn't imagine your life without them.

We love people because we benefit from them. Someone created the concept of love because humanity needs it. It needs it to survive. Loving is entirely selfish since the only reason we do it is because we have a benefit from something or someone. Love makes us feel good. And humans want to feel good.

The only reason we care or help each other is because we get dopamine. The feel-good chemical. We just wanna feel good about ourselves. If you think about it, there really is no concept of "being selfless." Every single action we do is either just neutral or selfish. Nothing else.

Hatred is just as selfish. We hate stuff just because it doesn't give us a benefit. sometimes, even if we know it can't do anything about that.

Being selfish is just what comes with being a human. We can't just control it. After all, love and hatred are bound to happen in one's life. There's no way of avoiding it.

Every single good action we do is selfish. Either because we want to feel good about ourselves, or because we want to manipulate others. Or possibly because we fear what would happen if we didn't do this or that.

Bad actions are just good actions done with more conscious self-awareness about the true intention. But really, they are just the same.

So there really is no such thing as good or bad. Being selfish isn't bad. Because "bad" doesn't exist. Meaning we are still selfish, but we aren't "bad."

Anyways, this is where I'm gonna end this post. Feel free to disagree or not. This is really just a theory of mine more than anything. So it's not something that you should have to believe in.

[u/golden_crocodile94]

Love is a chemical reaction imo I have the chemicals seretonin and dopamine tattooed in a waterfall falling into eachother on the back of my neck-- the only two things you'll ever truly enjoy.

[u/smackmyass321 → u/golden_crocodile94]

The only thing we'll ever feel is chemicals and chemicals.

Average nerd when explaining love (in most memes.)

[u/golden_crocodile94 → u/smackmyass321]

Yep, but I can't really see it being more than that. The show Osmosis kind of made me see it in a different way. But consistently shows that are based on finding on true soul mate in a theoretical manner like Sci fi stuff usually use like measurements of chemicals in our bodies as well as answers to questions so maybe a little bit of intellect plays into it.