On Love - the greatest invention

During the Stone Age a catastrophe was close. Too many people were born and there was too little food. Everyone had sex with anyone and the “family patterns” were non-existing. The former hunters settled down and started to be farmers, however the food was little and they needed some “serious” family planning.

The solution was to invent a “thing” that would make people have sex with, preferably, only one other person. That would lead to less kids and a stronger community.

10.000 years later Beatles sang “All you need is Love” and we started to celebrate the 14^th of February. Now people argue that we cannot live without Love, apparently water, food and Love are the three essentials aspects of human Life. Love more than sex.

Love is maybe one of the greatest inventions, maybe even greater than the wheel, the fire and youtube. Today some people actually believe that the invention is something naturally. Interflora, Hollywood and Barry White have told us that a strong affection for another person is Love.

Some people would argue that we discovered Love, but no, we invented it. A proof for that is how the view on Love (and the way we show it) has changed throughout history. It was actually first in the 17^th century that we started to believe in “one partner for the rest of the Life” and “love is the most beautiful thing ever”. For example Romeo and Julie is a tragedy story.

I don’t believe that natural feelings like; starvation, thirst and pain has changed throughout history. These feelings are natural and not invented feelings. The good thing about the fact that Love is invented is that then the opposite feeling, hate (?) or carelessness (?) is also invented…okay, that if only if you, like me, believe that the world consists of opposites, call it “Yin&Yang”.

Sharkespeare said that “Love from one side hurts, but love from two sides heals”, yes, we need something from the other person, we cannot feel happy on Love alone, and we need to be loved as well. All in all a very selfish way of thought but also a great way of surviving. Of course we all need something from someone else.

I am not saying that we should stop “loving”, we should more start to realize that Love is a great invention. I love. I love books, paintings and poetry – and I should love it, even though I would be able to survive without it. So is it also with the “true Love” to another person.