Deep Thought: Love

If you got to this chapter I'm assuming you read the previous ones, if not go back you fuckin cheater. Anyway this topic is easily related, but more progressed. Natural progression would say that to fall in 'love', a certain attraction is necessary, what kind isn't particularly important, yet is entirely important.

Love is easily one of the more complicated parts of the human emotions. It's an emotion that has many facets, sort of like a gem, but it is easily molded and situational. Think about your parents/guardians and family members. The 'love' you have for them is one of caring, they are (hopefully) the people who raised you, who helped make you who you are today by righting any wrongs you made and helping you grow as a person. You care about them because without them you lose a vital support system and people who have helped you grow and will continue to do so. Now think about a significant other. The person who 'gets you', who you can reveal your feelings to, a person who is so like you, yet different enough to not be redundant. Comparing those two feelings anyone can tell they are most likely different, "loving" and being "in love" as it's commonly put. But I think they are the same, just applied to different aspects of the people. I think Love is an overall impulse from the brain that effects how you perceive the person. If you love them they have a higher standing in the social aspects of your brain. For instance you trust a loved one more than a stranger because the stranger has no disposition in your brain.
Now think about your loved family member and significant other. You are in most cases torn because the brain is sending similar impulses, thus making people indecisive as it becomes hard to differentiate which impulse is "correct". If your mom and wife/husband disagree on which car to buy for example, who do you side with, the person who raised you and never steered you wrong, or the person who is in tune with your deeper feelings and knows how you are. Both love you, and you love them, but since the brain is sending two similar impulses they both seem like correct decisions.

"But Darryl, how are the two loves separate but the same?"

Well as I said the brain sends out different impulses based on disposition with the person. But these dispositions are also based ON the person. Think about this, would you think about your mother or grandmother in a sexual way? Hopefully not, but a significant other you just may and probably do. Like wise would you want to think about your significant other being there during those embarrassing moments when you were growing and experiencing life? Probably not. Thus the brain differentiates from which sections of itself to send the impulses from. In the car example you brain will send 'love impulses' as I'll call them, but from different sections of the brain. From your mother you may get a ping from your memory of cars you had growing up, or rules your mom said about cars and safety, or maybe even a sentimental car from your childhood. Whereas your significant other's pings may be from the future family standpoint, or a car that you two will enjoy. Though you got different responses, they carry the same type, thus conflicting. This fact had troubled me for a long time, but I think now I have it set in stone and ready for discussion and yet still for deeper analysis. We here for our entire like to love those close to you, and I believe that intently, but how do we as humans dealing with Conflicting Loves? Personally I take the stand that you combine the beliefs of both into a single ping. I think that if we take apart the different aspects of our life and out them down, setting aside the irrelevant and bringing the important to the forefront will inevitably combine ones morals and home raising with the sociability of other people in your life. To fuse the past and future into a new Prent will not effect your past, but set for a dynamically changing life. They say to learn of the future look to the past, and taking that principle at it's core is a way to get the most of love.

Written at 16, Revised and Readapted at 18.