Is Love a Puzzle that can be solved?

Is Love a Puzzle that can be solved?

Ever thought about love and the puzzle that hides behind it? I’m sure you have at some point in your life time. Love is a thought that can’t be escaped— except for robots, of course— but in general most people think about love and meeting their dream person. Though, in essence, what is love and how does one fall in love?

Though, as painful as it maybe, bear with me in saying that I do not believe in stars crossing together to create a pair of lovers.  We've all read those books with the star crossed lovers who are so destined by the gods of love to meet at all cost (cough* cough* Twilight).

What then, if not stars crossing together causes people to become so attracted to each other? Answer this riddle: what tries to always explain the unexplainable? If you said science, you are right! Let’s move away from the fictional or natural idea of love and focus on science. Science (specifically speaking, psychology) is attempting to solve the mysterious puzzle that behind love.

Everyone knows the old cliché of boy meets girl — their palms starts sweating, their hearts start racing and they feel high on cloud nine? Apparently palm sweating and heart racing are symptoms of this disease called love.  According to this psychologist Dr. Needle, “specific chemical substances such as oxytocin, phenethylamine, and dopamine, have been found to play a role in human experiences and behaviors that are associated with love. They function similar to amphetamine, making us alert, excited, and wanting to bond.” http://source.southuniversity.edu/the-psychology-behind-love-and-romance-70700.aspx

As far as am concerned, the only chemical that I know is dopamine which is apparently supposed to make you high on happiness. That is how when you fall in love, the world seems like a bright colorful place. The puzzle is not totally solved as to how we fall in love but at least we've got some clues now.

So, what do you think? Do you still believe in love as some sort of mystical thing that “coincidentally” happens or do you think, like scientists, that there is more to love than we give it credit for?

Personally, I believe it’s both. Love is unexplainable as in why it happens or when it happens because you can fall in love anytime as a child or an adult and maybe, he or she may not always be the “one” but you still fall in love with him or her anyway. Though I have this opinion, as a future scientist I want to solve the mystery of the unexplainable and believe that science can account for love too.

What’s your opinion? Email me at dorothyamankwah5@gmail.com to tell me what you think about love.