Love. It's a hell of a drug
What do we know about love?
There are so many interpretations of it.
So many ways it can be identified.
I wanna talk about love in relationships. Loving another person.
I don’t mean loving your parents or siblings or pets.
I mean the love you have for your partner. That person that you have so much uncontrollable energy for, that you describe it as love.
Let's start at the beginning.
You meet a person you have an interest in. You start talking and taking, the interest in each other grows, then over time there's a build-up of emotions that has you at a crossroad. You have built up such an attachment to this person that you make a decision that you want to consciously make an effort to do everything you can to keep this person in your life. You build up an ideology with the information they have given to you.
The person you have all of this desire and emotions for has put you in a euphoria that you don't want to let go of. You're hooked. The addiction gives you such a high and happiness it puts you in a state of mind that's indescribable. Is This Love? Sounds like a hit of cocaine to me, but I'm not far from the truth. The feeling of love and cocaine release the same chemicals to indicate happiness. Dopamine. While Cocaine delivers an intense high the same feeling can be interpreted by people in love. But what happens when the high is gone? the relationships break down. Are the withdrawals similar? Not in the physical form, but in the mental state of depression and sadness, I think they are. The urge to relapse is so strong which is why sometimes you see people return to relationships that were ended. Love can make people do crazy things. Intense love. There are people out there who's personalities suffer due to love. That guy that has no respect for women. Love did that. The woman who uses her body to take advantage of men with money and the men who use money to take advantage of women. Love did that. Just like medical drugs, there are side effects to receiving a high dosage of something and then going completely cold turkey.
Love can be seen as something you build with a person with an unwavering belief that this person will always give the same intensity of love and commitment to you that they have at their highest point of connection with you. That breaks down and how do you recover? Some people recover. Socialising and going out with friends and family is like the equivalent to an AA meeting. Some people take time to reflect on themselves and self-heal almost like meditating and become reborn mentally. Some get under one person to get over another. That last one is just another indication of being hooked on the drug of love. You don't love the person your sleeping with or just met but you do need a hit to forget the person that took their supply away from you. Sex also releases the same dopamine so just like a lower grade of coke, you're getting a hit of something similar but it doesn't hit as you remember it when your in love which leaves a sense of disappointment. Love can do many things to people but the one thing it does to everyone is let them foresee a future for themselves that includes the person they are addicted to.
Thats the psychedelic hallucination part of love kicking in. The similarities between love and drugs are the same. Love being part of the same family as it does so many things to you that prescription and illegal drugs to you. And just like an ex-addict when the high is over and you've kicked the habit for a long time and that particular person no longer appeals to you. When it does not affect you anymore. Another person comes along and you're hooked once again. So then that leaves you with the following questions. Did you genuinely love the person or did you love the high you received from them at that moment? Is love suppose to be temporary? Or is it that we, just like drugs have built up a high tolerance and it no longer has the same pull it once had. These are the things that make answers to love impossible. These are the things that make it a mystery. Adding to the fact that there are so many interpretations and definitions of love. For two people to come across each other with the same ideology of love it's rear in this day and age but if you can change how one person in the relationship sees love to the way you do, then it can be almost like having the purest uncut love around with a limitless high.
The person you have all of this desire and emotions for has put you in a euphoria that you don't want to let go of. You're hooked. The addiction gives you such a high and happiness it puts you in a state of mind that's indescribable. Is This Love? Sounds like a hit of cocaine to me, but I'm not far from the truth. The feeling of love and cocaine release the same chemicals to indicate happiness. Dopamine. While Cocaine delivers an intense high the same feeling can be interpreted by people in love. But what happens when the high is gone? the relationships break down. Are the withdrawals similar? Not in the physical form, but in the mental state of depression and sadness, I think they are. The urge to relapse is so strong which is why sometimes you see people return to relationships that were ended. Love can make people do crazy things. Intense love. There are people out there who's personalities suffer due to love. That guy that has no respect for women. Love did that. The woman who uses her body to take advantage of men with money and the men who use money to take advantage of women. Love did that. Just like medical drugs, there are side effects to receiving a high dosage of something and then going completely cold turkey.
Love can be seen as something you build with a person with an unwavering belief that this person will always give the same intensity of love and commitment to you that they have at their highest point of connection with you. That breaks down and how do you recover? Some people recover. Socialising and going out with friends and family is like the equivalent to an AA meeting. Some people take time to reflect on themselves and self-heal almost like meditating and become reborn mentally. Some get under one person to get over another. That last one is just another indication of being hooked on the drug of love. You don't love the person your sleeping with or just met but you do need a hit to forget the person that took their supply away from you. Sex also releases the same dopamine so just like a lower grade of coke, you're getting a hit of something similar but it doesn't hit as you remember it when your in love which leaves a sense of disappointment. Love can do many things to people but the one thing it does to everyone is let them foresee a future for themselves that includes the person they are addicted to.
Thats the psychedelic hallucination part of love kicking in. The similarities between love and drugs are the same. Love being part of the same family as it does so many things to you that prescription and illegal drugs to you. And just like an ex-addict when the high is over and you've kicked the habit for a long time and that particular person no longer appeals to you. When it does not affect you anymore. Another person comes along and you're hooked once again. So then that leaves you with the following questions. Did you genuinely love the person or did you love the high you received from them at that moment? Is love suppose to be temporary? Or is it that we, just like drugs have built up a high tolerance and it no longer has the same pull it once had. These are the things that make answers to love impossible. These are the things that make it a mystery. Adding to the fact that there are so many interpretations and definitions of love. For two people to come across each other with the same ideology of love it's rear in this day and age but if you can change how one person in the relationship sees love to the way you do, then it can be almost like having the purest uncut love around with a limitless high.
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