Love - Ideas for an audio monatge...

The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from common pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. The diversity of meanings and the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to define. The concept of love usually refers to a strong, ineffable feeling towards another person. Religions and philosophers have attempted defining love in different ways. It is easy to see love as bonding with a person or a thing. Love is like air it is everywhere but it is hard to pin point that this is it. Scientists say that the amount of love that a person displays is mark of his/her mental health.
I have roughly divided the idea of love into three – First one is Love, then comes romantic possession and finally it is attachment. The first type is more sexual in nature or the attraction is more sexual or it involves sex-drive and bodily measurements. It is physical and it involves fleshy thoughts. We have different variations of the same in our culture. The second type of love is romantic obsession. This type involves romantic passion. This is a much more serious type of love and many see it as a gateway to marriage. Physical equations are applicable here also, but they are minimized. The third stage is attachment and this bonding lasts forever. Scientists have discovered that the chemical involved in this third stage is Oxytocin.

Love and Human child.
To understand the idea called love, we have placed it in the context of the development of a human child. The child is born into a world of love and care. The bond between the child and its mother is hyper- glorified and is used as a central motive in creative arts.

We have plenty examples from the field of poetry, pop music, folk culture. The child is attracted to its mother for various reasons – comfort, protection, and care. As it grows the child shifts its attention from its mother to other things like toys, dress and other fancy, colorful objects. After this short fascination the child moves on to other objects as
Bicycle, Computer, PlayStation and other electronic gadgets like ipods and mobile phones. Once the child reaches the stage of adulthood he becomes aware of the ‘other’ who invariably will be from the opposite sex. This is also the stage where the child becomes more narcissistic i.e. spend lots of time in loving himself / herself. The boy or the girl starts making friendship with others. Some of these friendships may develop into a love relationship which may end in a marriage.

Idea Courtesy (Judy Cobb – The Best of National Geographic Magazine – Podcast)