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Trivia:

Do you know that when you hug someone, you produce a certain kind of hormone that makes you happy and the product of this is a smile?

When you love someone you tend to say “I love you from the bottom of my heart.” But this really means “I love you from the bottom of my hypothalamus.” Hypothalamus is the area in the brain where emotions are coming from.

                Nowadays, Science could explain almost everything. Science is a product of man’s continuous searching for answers to every question that bothers him everyday. Due to man’s patience he gained knowledge, enough to answer his queries.

            Over the course of history it has been artists, poets and playwrights who have made the greatest progress in humanity’s understanding of love. Romance has seemed as inexplicable as the beauty of a rainbow. But these days’ scientists are challenging that notion, and they have rather a lot to say about how and why people love each other.

                Is this useful? The scientists think so. For a start, understanding the neurochemical pathways that regulate social attachments may help to deal with defects in people’s ability to form relationships.

                For many of us, romance and love are mysterious and magical experiences that defy all explanations and attempts to quantify them.  To think that there is such a thing as a science of love could exist, or that science could be used to make predictions and assumptions about love and romance, is sacrilege to many romantic people.  In spite of the fact that much of the mechanics of love and romance are unknown and mysterious to us, however, science is now attempting to define the reasons why people fall in love and these explanations are all scientific.

                The science of love shows us that we’re programmed to need love and project love, and if you can’t help falling in love you’re in good company: neither would the rest of mankind!

                So, what is it in our physiology that makes us need love, want love . . . and unable to avoid falling in love?  Some scientists and psychologists claim that because humans are social animals, and need to be surrounded in communities of people to survive, that we have developed a natural need to fall in love in order to be forced to stay around other people.  Evolution and natural selection may have a lot to do with the fact that you can’t help falling in love.

                Then again, there are others who say that evolution and science have nothing to do with falling in love, and that humans are subject to a mysterious, unexplainable force that makes us desire the perfect person for us.  In this model, we can’t help falling in love because things are destined to happen in a certain way, and there is no escaping the fact that you will meet the perfect person for you someday.

                Regardless of everything that has been explained, it’s still better not to force yourself how you would define love because love would speak for itself when you already have it for someone special.