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If you are in tune with your heart or you can google love vs. lust, you should be able to distinguish the difference fairly easily. You are then informed enough to make a new decision. You come across many people you ‘like’ many of which who ‘like’ you in return. but if you know someone is not your ‘love’ would you proceed forward with the relationship if everything else comes conveniently? I have heard peers say “S/he’s not Mr/s right, but S/he’s Mr/s ‘right now'” and if there is a catch phrase for it, it’s probably being practiced, in fact Iranican’s Shahed buys into it. My answer to the question is no. I’m not saying all of that falls under lust. I’d say there is a gradient that starts with lust on one end, a friendship on the other end, and from friendship to love, there is no gradient. I submit that nowhere on the scale from lust to friends is there a point that makes the progress of a romantic relationship worthwhile, furthermore I will argue that my engagement in such a relationship will reduce or eliminate my chances of finding what’s cliche’ed as “true love”. To be clear, I want to casually define love as your willingness to give your life for the other person.

Cynics argue that “love” is nothing more than a chemical reaction in your brain that mimics taking shots of morphine, but I stand that there is indeed a metaphysical connection. The connection that enables you to give unlike anything else before. No,  it’s not a “happily ever after” fairy tale story. It is just a start, like the birth of a child, which needs attention, care and nourishment, but can grow indefinitely, unlike morphine.

For the most part it’s still unknown why we fall in love with one person over another, but Dr. Helen Fisher (TED Presenter) has some fresh insight here

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