Comments on: What Is Love? (Baby, Don’t Hurt Me) http://melissamalka.com/blog/2010/03/what-is-love-baby-dont-hurt-me/ Science, sarcasm, and other "s" words. Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:15:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeremy http://melissamalka.com/blog/2010/03/what-is-love-baby-dont-hurt-me/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Jeremy Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:34:45 +0000 http://melissamalka.com/?p=253#comment-117 I think that people spend entirely too much time defining what love is. This is something that both poets and scientists are guilty of. I think it's just kind of there, and that's good enough. It's like wondering why the sky is blue; yes there's a scientific reason for it, but does that change the fact that it's a pleasant and natural thing? Personally I've spent a lot of time trying to define love as well, and what I've found is that it's an endless rabbit hole and it doesn't really get you anywhere. That's not to say love itself is futile or fruitless effort - it certainly is not - but trying to quantify it is pointless. I think it's just kind of there we're better off for that. I don't know what love is either. I'll probably never know. Even when I think I've found it, there's really no way to confirm or deny it. But when I finally think I've found it, it will make me happy and that's good enough for me. I think that people spend entirely too much time defining what love is. This is something that both poets and scientists are guilty of. I think it’s just kind of there, and that’s good enough. It’s like wondering why the sky is blue; yes there’s a scientific reason for it, but does that change the fact that it’s a pleasant and natural thing?

Personally I’ve spent a lot of time trying to define love as well, and what I’ve found is that it’s an endless rabbit hole and it doesn’t really get you anywhere. That’s not to say love itself is futile or fruitless effort – it certainly is not – but trying to quantify it is pointless. I think it’s just kind of there we’re better off for that.

I don’t know what love is either. I’ll probably never know. Even when I think I’ve found it, there’s really no way to confirm or deny it. But when I finally think I’ve found it, it will make me happy and that’s good enough for me.

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