Anyone nursed any cupid injuries? Or did the mischievous little archer strike the wrong heart by mistake?
Fact: Cupid is the god of erotic love(to the Greeks at least).
Fiction: Cupid's arrow makes people fall in love. If the arrow makes people fall in love, what makes them fall out of love? Lack of sustaining the arrow in its place? An arrow thief? Someone in the way of true love?
The issue with love is that it is a complex phenomenon, said to work like a fundamental emotion e.g. fear.
Fact: Romantic love is primarily a reward system, which leads to various emotions, rather than a specific emotion.
There is no facial expression that can be uniquely linked to being "in love".
Fiction: Once in Love always in Love with the same guy. If lovers swear their feelings to be everlasting, the hormones clearly tell a different story. Like a friend of mine puts it, a time will come and "there is no Ummph in the relationship". So what will you be feeding on when the the cupid arrow's effect dies out? Yeah, u may say that your great grandpa n great grandma are still in love but that's not cupid, that's like brotherly love or agape love.....not Eros or romantic.
So what was that you were nursing again? Maybe not Love......maybe like....or infatuation....
Fact: romantic phenomenon persists, and no human culture on Earth, has been proven not to know of romantic love.
2 comments:
..the little wound cupid marks on someones heart is only so temporary but its not entirely useless...neither is it meaningless.. It makes you you stop, think and look at someone differently ..notice stuff you wouldnt previously have. I swear seen myself grow old with someone...and that silly little rat (read cupid) had something to do with it. Chis Rock once said during one his spectacular stand up shows. '..youve never been in love if you've never contemplated murder...' I will reserve any comment on that..
lol.....never been in love if never contemplated murder....gotta love Chris Rock
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