What Is Love?

What is “love”? For such a small word, it sure has a deep-rooted connection with almost everything across the world.

You can fall in love with someone, you can do something in the name of love, and you can even love to hate something.

It’s not only an incredibly versatile word, but a pretty flexible concept too!

What exactly is love though? And why does everyone go mad about it?

Science explains it for us in a typically unromantic fashion: We feel the emotion of love when certain hormones are released throughout our body, and when certain regions of the brain such as the hippocampus are activated.

Boring, right?

Thankfully for us love has been studied, philosophized, pondered and dwelled upon by hopeless romantics, philosophers, bards, poets, musicians and so on since the dawn of the human race.

The result? Well, we now we at least know that there are many different kinds of love!

In fact, ancient Greek philosophers studied the subject and determined that there are 6 different forms of love.

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