Every so often, I'm up for a good laugh and I glance through an MSN article. This one had got to take the cake today. The three phases of falling in love - yet it has nothing to do with love... After all I've written on love lately, I couldn't let this pass without comment.
When did love become chemistry and biology? And here I thought it was an emotional need and an act of the will.
Are people so out of touch with reality that they think that it's a bunch of chemical reactions that will keep a husband and wife together for over fifty years? Feelings? Feelings and then habit? The climbing divorce rate seems to imply that people do think so.
The article does have a lot to say about infatuation, which is the emotional impulse of love. And infatuation is great. But I wouldn't want to make any long-term plans on it. Love is patient. Think you love someone? Prove it by taking the time to let the bliss settle, and to take a long look at the different facets of the other person, and then act.
Love is not blind; infatuation is blind. People don't fall in love; they fall in ditches.
But I guess it's time to usher in the newer and better ideas of humankind. In light of this special occasion, I have taken a stab at editing I Corinthians 13. Maybe it'll start catching on for reading at weddings...
Love is rushed, love is blind. It can be jealous, it is a trophy, it is that falling feeling. It is irrational, it's about what you want as long as I want it, it is temperamental, it ends up temporal. Love avoids evil when convenient and forgets the truth for the greater good. It always grasps, sometimes trusts, vainly hopes, is easily broken.
/end sarcastic rant
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