It is impossible to love and be wise.-- Francis Bacon

What is love?
This question has been popping up lately.

Of course, if you know anything about me, you'll

know that I alway ask questions.

How did the concept of God came around?

What is at the bottom of the Oceans?

Who prescribed certain roles to the different genders?

you know, the usual.

The day I stop thinking is when I truly die.

So I naturally came to the age-old question

of love in which we are all undoubtedly too young

to answer but still never too tired to search.
And I'm zero-ing in on the 'romantic love'.what ever that means...

And when you have a question, what do you do?

GOOGLE IT!

and that's what I did.

I typed in 'what is love?'

with the little flicker of hope that 

I would find MY answer to the question. 

About.com: 

Love is based on caring, friendship, commitment and trust. When you are in love it is as if you have your best most trusted friend at your side AND you feel physically attracted to them. It is the best of both worlds!

Well it does seem simple enough. But then...
Why is it not a satisfying enough answer? 
So next step: Look at the Science of Love.
This website rocks for that.


Let me share some of the excerpts that my brain selectively chose to remember. 

• Psychologists have shown it takes between 90 seconds and 4 minutes to decide if you fancy someone  - This only means speed dating filters out the best from the 'okay bunch' because of the time limit. 
•  Psychologists think we need this rose-tinted view. It makes us want to stay together to enter the next stage of love – Attachment. (That's after Lust and Attraction, of course)
• Oxytocin - The cuddle hormone (you got to read this one to believe it!)

So there it is. My little research that really amounts to not much.


Maybe this graph can help.



And I always believe that a great presentation ALWAYS has a kick-ass music.
(Cos I'm so 'funkay' like that!)