Happiness Must Be Embraced

To keep the chemical reaction abuzz.

- Kalpana M Naghnoor

Life without a partner is like reading the blank pages surprisingly bound into a book. The pages will be mere sheets that your thumb will shuffle through very quickly to the end. The hardbound cover you will shut very decisively. The end has arrived sooner than expected. You will rise to take the book to the shelf where it will stand pretty by its glorious cover. A book without written pages has no meaning.

Life is very much the same, the man-woman synergy is what gives meaning to life. It creates human forms, it propagates life, and it binds a lot of meaning into the book of life. So, when does love begin to become a part of your life? It is a combination of psychology, neuroscience, and biochemistry.

When a person who pleases your eyes comes along a chemical called dopamine is released. The release of dopamine, in turn, influences the release of testosterone, which drives you into a passion. First the visual passion ensuing into courtship and then physical passion. Precisely why couples experience higher passion the first few months in the relationship. Then the dopamine reduces sufficiently, and the couple begins to concentrate on other things in their life together, rather than just physical desire.

Jumping to imagined conclusion