Thursday, May 29, 2008

love at first sight..

So am sitting at this coffee place n my friend M is spouting off about the love of her life.. she said it was "love at first sight" and that they were "made for each other". I would have understood "attraction at first sight" (to put it more delicately). But love??? really?? tat too when you are 21??? i am a cynic i agree but i think most of u would agree there can never be love at first sight.

But M protested.. She said she had all the signs.. "You get nervous, start to shake, heart beats faster, a heat wave passes through you making you blush or ears red & your blood starts to boil making it impossible to breathe." I fail to see how this indicates that she was in love.... This is just biochemistry. an upsurge of hormones really....

Basically the
dopamine produces a feeling of bliss and the adrenaline produces the racing heart and excitement. So these two chemicals produce elation, intense energy, sleeplessness, craving, loss of appetite and focused attention.

Her argument is tat the fundamental mistake in denying the existence of love at first sight is the assumption that we cannot attribute to a person characteristics that are not present at first sight. Such attribution is done spontaneously by using certain stereotypical evaluations. But i say if going on stereotypical nature, love at first sight can often mislead as it is based more on imagination than on sight.

As far as am concerned love is something tat develops slowly... months ...years you never know..

Now if u said love at first sight for this... ill completly and totally agree .... :)




Im looking forward to your comments.. while we are on the subject.. with ppl falling for online romance ...love at first byte anyone??:P

7 comments:

  1. You crack me up.ROFL.. love at first byte? Get real.. internet romance lan namaku othu varathu :D.. and am sure it is consoling to the guy who u'll end up with tat he has to wait month or years.. :P

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  2. love at first bite maybe... a fondue savoyarde? eh maybe

    pona porathu pozhappillatha vetti pasanga!
    time will heal them i guess ;)

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  3. He he, good one that 'love at first byte' thing.....Cannot agree with u more......There are couples living together for years and yet can't understand each other... Still if there is anyone out there claiming they are made for each other after few moments of being together, give me a break! Infactuation is good I agree, a drug that gets you on a high with one having to take it, opens a window of opportunity to seek your soul mate but the key is to engage in the relationship without mutual commitment...Moment you find certain habits/traits of your lover unacceptable, all the hopes and dreams are going to come crashing down... Friends and sometime psychiatrists needs to be sought.... worse sometimes, u will have to go searching ur own soul instead of enjoying Nadal beat Federer or Sachin getting the better off Lee, ithu thevai thaanaa???

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  4. Anonymous31/5/08

    love at first sight is a load of bull... i mean as you said its all biochem....everything has a scintific reason ... i mean i'm not even sure love exists...its actually comfort that u find after living or say bein wit someone for a longgggg time....when you are in a relationship for some time and you stop wantin to kill that person...thats wer comfort begins!!!

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  5. Anonymous1/6/08

    Would love to believe love at first sight exists..Also would love to belive that tooth fairies exist..
    WAit a minute maybe both do..in a parallel universe - that by the way no scientist has entirely been able to rubbish :P Hope still reigns :P Hurray!
    Great blog. Hell. Who needs a guy..I rather bite into DBC anyday.. okay BEEP.. Adult stuff doing the rounds here..
    P.s. all ur readers are above 18 right?
    p.s.s. Hell am I a public embarrassement or what? :P

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  6. indha love oru mega peter....adhuvum love at first sight....total matter....so...guys...pick up,drop escape namadhu tharaga mandhiramaga irukka vendum...
    you get infatuated after seeing a girl...
    she smiles at you..
    you are stupefied...
    this you believe...love at first sight...
    after a week you take her to pizza hut or barista..
    she empties your wallet..
    this goes on for some time...
    after considerable loss of your money..
    she gives you a missed call..
    you call back..
    she says the vishayam is important...come to marina beach..
    you ride at 75 kmph in your lokka hero honda cd100..
    she says...sorry da..naa unna oru frienda dhan paathaen..enakku kalyanam fix aayiruchu..porakka pora en kozhandhaikku un paerae vechudaren nu sollittu poiduva...
    after that..whisky,thooku kayiru,railway track and so on...
    so never love...
    sorry if my comment has gone away from the topic discussed above..

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  7. RT, this is ur big B Shankar...intha Shankar R aa kandukko....pick up drop escape pathi pesaraan...and tell R, name shankar is copyrighted by me here....so he's got to change it....

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