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Love is nature's way of saying, come on live a little bit. That is, it is the fundamental seduction of life. Love can be called a primary emotion, in that admixtures using it can produce many other emotions. Love is universal and biological in humans, yet so powerful is it that our perceptions of it are frequently myopic and defensive.

Love probably has its roots in the inherent joy of being alive. We want to share this feeling, and also defend it against ever pesky suffering. So many types of love then sprout. Familial, sexual, clan, food, work - early people assumed everything was alive and so could love up all aspects of the physical world.

Love assumes for individual vulnerability. Love requires extending credit to another or something. It requires experience of a kind, and that is why first loves typically end in chaos. Love makes us do what we would never normally do, hence the most devious souls use love to prey upon others.

Easily degradable, love can become thin and malleable in the sweaty fingers of decadents. Yet it is perfectly recyclable and can be regenerated at a potency as ferocious as ever. Love must be reckoned with eventually, or one must face an inevitable crisis.

As a way back into life, love is frequently conflated with redemptions and all sorts of conversions. As grotesque as these may seem to some, all expressions of love are to be assumed positive in that they provide even the most empty and anguished with a method of reseizing life.

Love is the answer, but not to every question. Love is both more shallow and fundamental than most of us would like to admit. It occurs by wanting it and knowing that we want it. It requires conduits and a bit of understanding from its conduits.

Without it there really is not much of a point.