BENEATH HIS MASK

prologue

There is an old saying 'if you love something let it go', controversial to the present belief that if we love something or someone then we must fight for it or else it's not love.

Both signify very deep and popular beliefs about love, both to the extremes, both opposite to each other, both controversial to each other and yet both very meaningful. Both sayings give a message about love to which people not only recite but follow. And ironically people don't follow one but both beliefs.

But the bigger question remains -what is love? How do we define it? How can you differentiate love from a different emotion? How do you know that it is love in the first place? How are people supposed to understand what love feels like if they never experienced it before? Is it a one time thing? Is it an extreme? If it is how can we tell if it's love or infatuation ? Or an obsession?

But even if they don't understand it people won't think twice before they say something like i love pizza or i love my parents or i love the weather and so on.....

Can it be that we are hardwired to feel love even if we don't completely understand it? Like there is a human craving or longing inside us which makes sense even if we can't explain it? Or are we so preoccupied with the idea that we are ready to believe something even if we don't know for sure.

Even though there is insufficient knowledge about the matter, is understanding through instincts a human tendency? Or are we just just being irrational.

But one thing for sure, emotions, instincts and goals are what distinguishes us from machines, if we were always using our head and being rational all the time, we probably wouldn't be humans.