So I feel really wonderful today! The sun is shining, I'm eating yummy chinese food at college, I got an A on my psych test, I get to see Ray tonight, I had a good night's sleep, and the world is good.... for now at least. My hand is giving me a little bit of trouble though... swelling up around the bite wounds... I figure if they aren't healed by the end of the month, they'll make a good Halloween costume as a vampire victim. =)

So, I've been doing a lot of comtemplating lately about what is love... What is it really? Can it truly be defined? The scientific part of me would extol that it is obviously a survival adaptation programmed into us through evolution powered by releases of certain hormones and neurotransmitters. By making us desire to have a monogomous relationship, it increases not only the likelihood that the offspring will survive but also the likelihood that the male will have the sole rights to passing on his bloodline through the female. This latter advantage is even more greatly increased by the fact that human females can be imprenated any time and not simply during a limited time of heat like many other animals, so by having watch over the female constantly, he ensures his line's continuance. Also thusly, the female again ensures that he needs to stay around and in the mean time helps to protect both her and her children.

Love for parents, love for children, love for friends can all be explained similarly as a survival tool that would have been reinforced in the bloodlines as it made the individual who possesed the characteristic more likey to procreate.

But is love simply a physical thing? Being the hopeless romantic and poetic type that I am, my sensitive side grinds against this definition and screams that No! it cannot simply be about lust and physical survival! There is so much more integral to life than biochemicals and Darwinism... But I simply cannot pinpoint it. So does a deeper definition truly exist? And if not, than can love truly exist for one like me who doesn't see a likelihood of ever reproducing?

Wow... My mind is spinning. I'm going to go muse over this and eat the rest of my general tso's chicken.

Deep Huggles!