Replace These Four Bad Ideas About Love with This Simple Equation
200,000 years of human history and we still don’t know what love is.
What is the mode of right effort we should put towards tending the flames of love, if we want them to warm us for a lifetime? What are the daily actions we can take to hold onto love when she graces us with her blessed presence?
Human beings are a little obsessed with love.
In 2018, researchers Christenson, Roberts and ter Bogt analyzed Top 40 music from 1960–2010 and found 67% of the songs related to love and relationships and an additional 29% related to lust or sex. It’s a wonder then, with all of that musing, that even in 2021, we lack consensus on what love actually is.
What is love?
How would you define love? Is it a feeling? A behavior? A state of mind? Anthropologist and researcher Dr. Helen Fisher says that love is a biological drive just like thirst, identifying separate brain regions for lust, (fleeting) romantic love and attachment, and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary offers three definitions of love. They are:
love noun \ ˈləv \
- strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties; ie. maternal love for a child
