Logic or Love?

I am a very logical person. I believe things can be explained as simple as 1+1= 2. If 1+1 is turning out to be something other than 2 then there is definitely an error.

Most of my childhood, I have been believing that it is possible to find logic, explanation and equations to everything in life. Apples fall from trees due to gravity, clouds collide up in the sky and pour down the rains due to atmospheric pressure and electrical charge difference in them, seasons change due to earth’s changing distance from sun, so on and so forth.

In fact, science has tried to define equations for the most complex events in our world and galaxies ranging from weather predictions to some far away galaxy explosions.

Every beautiful event in nature as well either has a hidden purpose or an explanation ; like flowers bloom to attract insects for pollination, ocean waves are generated due to gravitational forces from Moon and the beautiful white snowflakes patterns are generated due to atmospheric temperature and humidity differences.

So for me everything was explainable, logical. Until the moment I came across that one feeling which completely vanquished me.

 Love.

The feeling is so real and powerful but equally illogical and unjustifiable.

It compels people to act in certain way, change themselves, think selflessly and do bigger things than they could have ever dreamed. It makes you cry in happiness and laugh at your own sadness. It has the power to change yourself, change people and change world eventually!

What is this love? Where does it come from? How does it suddenly make an appearance within you and take control of your life? And makes you act completely against the logic in your brain?

Is it the first time their eyes met, her beautiful smile or his mesmerizing funny talks or the sway of her long black hair? Is it the way he looks at her or the way she smells that makes them this this illogical step? What is it exactly that gets the two people attracted to each other?  What does exactly happen? Is it the situation? The culture? The looks? Similar interests?

Recently, I saw a documentary on TV, where scientists had evaluated the logic behind love. It said that humans secrete a pheromone which help them choose a partner. Incidentally, siblings secrete a pheromone that repels them from each other. The looks play a major role in choosing a partner as well. It proves the person is genetically of a better breed without any manufacturing defects which can hamper future generations. The appropriate proportions of female body certifies her ability to bear more/better children. The strength of a male body signifies a security of family for females. So on and on. These rules are supposedly burned in the ancient human mind that we all carry.

But when we look around the world we live in today, there are all kinds of couples and all kinds of relationships which cross all these traditional boundaries. What brings them and keeps them together is a mystery. Most of them will say, It’s hard to describe, hard to put in words. It is something that is felt from inside which can’t be expressed in any humanly words. Hundreds of stories and songs have tried their best to describe it, but it still remains a mystery and the most important part of people’s life.

The whole phenomenon is so very illogical that I have started doubting my idea of logic. This completely irrational event is the basis for every relationship we ever have, the basis of most motives of human beings, is the cause of birth and evolution of better generations to come and could be the ultimate purpose of life.

Let us say we ask ourselves, why do we love the person we love in our life?

Think carefully. Can you name that one thing? Ok, can you name the combination of many things? Still not sure?  Well, there you go…it is unreasonably illogical.

If the world was to be explained in an equation, Love would be the biggest imaginary variable which could impact everything without revealing its true value! I guess, that’s why we have 1+1 = 3 instead of 2, in case of human beings!