The Science Of Love

When you think about love, you probably picture the essential mating ritual where Jeetendra prances around and does his thang, while Sridevi gyrates her hips. O… You don’t? Just me then I guess. My bad.

Hate to break it to you, love is overly romanticized. Falling in love is exciting and all but it’s due to chemicals released in the brain. I know it might be a bit hard to believe but there is no grand music or waltzing dancers in the background when you fall head over heels for someone. If there is, you probably are high or just schizophrenic.

My friend, love is nothing but a resplendent orchestra of chemicals composed by your miniature brain ( I kid. I kid)*. Although the science behind love isn’t extremely romantic, it is quite fascinating. There is a whole lot of biology involved in it which may actually rid love of it’s amorous essence. So let’s get right to it :

Crazy in love :

Remember Shahrukh going bananas over Ka… Ka… Ka… Kiran. That’s totally possible. When you are in love, the level of serotonin in your brain spikes to a point where it virtually mirrors that of a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder. This is why you cannot seem to think of anyone else but your smoldering neighbour or your lover. Both if you are lucky. Love, homies, can literally drive you crazy and in some cases retarded.

Love and other drugs :

Remember the empowering sensation you experience after you beat your four years old nephew at chess? That’s dopamine kicking in. It is a chemical manufactured by your brain which gives you a rush of pleasure and happiness. Dopamine is released during the initial attraction stage and also while using cocaine and nicotine. Hence when you fall in love or snort coke, you feel invincible. Hmmm.. Weird why is there no law against love.

Blind Flurry :

I am pretty sure there were times when your close friends criticized you for dating a hippo but you couldn’t care less because they were dead wrong. Now what if I tell you they weren’t. You see love induces an evolutionary blindness which is critical to move forward in your relationship so that you could reproduce even if it is with a hippo. Awww did I hurt your sentiment?

Love yourself :

Stop checking yourself out on the screen for god-sake, you can’t even see the reflection clearly. Narcissistic much? Believe it or not, you tend to be attracted to someone who looks and is similar to yourself. So the chances of you finding someone has drastically reduced since I doubt anyone else looks like a rodent.

Love, sex, and mustache :

Testosterone is the chemical responsible for the growth of your and your bae’s mustache. Yes, men do not have a monopoly over testosterone, your girl too has some, maybe more than you. Testosterone creates desire as well as alpha behaviour, which may push people to pursue (in your case stalk) the one who is creating this desire.

Where art thou? :

Prairie voles are rodents (no they still don’t look like you) that form a long-term mating pair. But when a study was conducted on a vole where its vasopressin was suppressed, it was observed they lost interest in their mate immediately and did not even protect them from new mates. So kids don’t mess around with vasopressin.

Parent Trap :

Evolution has played some weird and creepy tricks on us bruh. I will tell you how. Sub-consciously you are wired to be attracted to someone who looks similar to one of your parents. Well guess Freud wasn’t wrong then eh.

So kids there you have it. The sanctity of love has been defiled by the phenomenon of biological science. But don’t let that deter you. Someone out there is waiting for you with a paper bag over their face.

*Lol obviously I don’t.