This Thing Called Love
Part II
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This Thing Called Love
Part II
I was really tempted to drop this subject, and I’m not really the amorous type. I go out, like in a gilded cage and try to be nice and acceptable and move along and hope nobody bothers me but now and then…like everybody else…something gets my goat. So I guess, regardless of how …trivial.. the topic seems to be, I just have to blog this out, ok?
I have this place I have to manage, see. It’s filled with rotating interns and residents and all of a sudden, the senior resident barges into my office and reports that there’s been a fight that went on inside this facility.
It seems female intern X who is assigned in a different area, keeps visiting the facility to keep tabs with male resident Y ,who claims he entertains X’s affection but is really serious with resident XX. (Exactly how he “entertains” them, I still have to needle out of him) .During her recent visit, Intern X sees resident Y and resident XX together. They avoid Intern X’s stares by excusing themselves to lunch out together, but Resident XX forgets her bag in the facility. As soon as she reenters the facility, without Resident Y, Intern X grabs her hair and pulls at it and dishes out fighting words, like “flirt” and it takes 2 of my best male residents to grab hold of her hand and with great difficulty, unclaw it off resident XX’s scalp, which is now, bare of a few strands of hair. Right now, there are lawsuits and counter-lawsuits (Intern X has a lawyer for a brother) with the administrator’s office, but I get dragged into this, well because, it happened under my watch. What am I suppose to do here? Post a no flirting sign (under pain of death) ?
See how powerful this thing is? It can actually disrupt your life ,even without any emotional involvement on your part.
Isn’t there a way to tap the force “Love” brings and redirect it into the more serious problems of the world? You know, like Legolas of Lord of the Rings shooting cupid arrows on Iraqis, US combat forces and visiting Al Qaedas? (Think that would make a difference?) Maybe real arrows, huh?
Neuroanatomists would point out to a small space at the base of the brain which is suppose to be your pleasure center. Just nearby, is the center for rage and aggression and also adjacent is a satiety center. How they really interact makes for interesting reading. Do people who fall in love lose their appetite? What if they fall out of love, do they tend to get fat from overfeeding their satiety center? What if they can’t get hold of food, don’t they get irritable, nasty and go into a rage? This old adage “Make Love, Not War” must really be like traffic signals in our heads making us prone to behave aggressively or peacefully, depending on how we satisfy our pleasure center.
How about loving each other” till we’re old and grey”? Do you still see couples doing that? I have, I guess, with my Mom and Dad. In this day and age, it beats me how they can do it.
There are animal experiments which show a waning interest in coital pleasure with the same sex partner after a certain period; only to be renewed with the introduction of a new sexual partner.
The human experience on Love seem to transcend this animal behaviour. It hangs out there somewhere in a mysterious spiritual plane between the limbic lobe and memories.
making us write , sing or even dance to it.
Darn it…
