Philosophical Insights From a Lame Guy

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I recently got hired at a hospital and pretty much the first day I wore my scrubs I got them filthy. This didn't happen during my shift however. This occurred about an hour after punching out at a (surprise) cafe. A guy in a wheelchair was outside yelling into a cell phone about being unable to date owing to his inablity to attain an erection. He basically screamed "No one can fuck me!" And threw his latte against a wall very close to my head before muttering an apology and wheeling off.

The milk and coffee came out in the wash, but the scene left me with a small impression: is that what 'love' boils down to this unfortunate man?

I never really understood the concept of Love, even though people throw the word around constantly. People are as likely to decry their love of chocolate as of another human, but it surely has a different meaning.

I was took up the Socratic mantle and asked tons of people to define the word love. Most people immeadiately describing the kind of love the crippled man craved, the kind of erotic love found between the legs of someone you're attracted to.

Was love merely a vestige of Man's mating habits? God's way of tricking rational beings to procreate?

Much like Socrates, people quickly grew angry when questioned about the foundations of their beliefs in Love and related topics and I had to drop the subject after a few rounds of "Why?"

In psychology I learned some of the foundations of attraction and bonding. How important neurotransmitters are to how we percieve others. Of how Man's rational mind doesn't kick in until after we make decisions. I peeled back this onion in my mind and none of this information satisfied my mind. In disecting the subject I seemed to have killed it.

Perhaps our lame friend was right, love just boils down to cold mechanics. But one can only hope for the illusion of something timeless and perfect that lasts forever and even if this is the little, white lie we tell ourselves to justify our actions and reactions, it is at the core of what being alive is all about. Man didn't build civilazation merely because he could, he did it to impress the ladies.