User blog comment:StarlightAT/What is Love?-Persona Story Theme/@comment-26045900-20150310061322

I think love is something that can't be described accurately enough with just words.

Biologically, it's a side effect of the human species' reproductive system. There are primarily three types of reproductive systems for organisms; the first is where there are countless children all scrambling for survival with little to no guidance from their parents, like spiders. The second is a batch of numerous children, where the parents will give them somewhat mediocre attention and protection, such as rabbits. The last is where the parents put all their energy into raising just a few young, such as humans and elephants. Love and affection help give the parents incentives to stick together and devote themselves to the child. Of course, these ideas are not always true, but remain dominant for the most part.

Love is one of those ideas that you could spend days upon weeks upon years talking about, and never come to a satisfying conclusion. Love is the source of joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain. It's a fickle thing that comes unexpectedly and can leave just as suddenly. Often, it leaves us with the scars we've carved into ourselves or let others carve into us. We only get out of it however much we put in, but it feels like it's so much more. Some people live for that feeling, being connected so closely to someone outside of ourselves. It's a drug, an addiction, because we start to associate it with the purest happiness. Maybe it's only a fleeting illusion that always fades, but I don't think love is wrong.