Sunday, September 21, 2008

Eww... Everything that goes down feels like coming out. How do I gain more weight and fats at this rate? Dimmit!!! Nothing to do just now, so I did something to one of my pics with earphones. I like the effect it gave. Limegreen :)




Pretty right? LOL... **Vomit**

Anyways, class outing tml... Time to cycle and work my leg muscles! Tone it girl, tone it! Maybe going for a dip in the pool tml? Relax and chill my back... Aching like shit still... Water therapy? Haas... Anyways, saw something interesting today.

Psychology depicts love as a cognitive and social phenomenon. Psychologist Robert Sternberg formulated a triangular theory of love and argued that love has 3 different components: intimacy, commitment, and passion. Intimacy is a form in which 2 people share confidences and various details of their personal lives (usually in friendships and romantic love affairs). Commitment, on the other hand, is the expetation that the relationship is permanent. The last and most common form of love is sexual attraction and passion. Passionate love is shown in infatuation as well as romantic love. All forms of love are viewed as varying combinations of these 3 components.

Following developments in electrical theories, such as Coulomb's law, which showed that positive and negative charges attract, analogs in human life were developed, such as "opposites attract". However, in the last century, research on the nature of human mating has generally found this not to be true. Infact, people tend to like people similar to themselves (I agree!). However, in a few and unusual and specific domains, suchas immune systems, it seems that humans prefer others who ae unlike themselves, since this will lead to a baby which has the best of both worlds (interesting! I also want!). In recent years, various uman bonding theories have been developed, described in terms of attachments, ties, bonds and affinities.

Some western authorities disaggregate into 2 main components, the altruistic and narcissistic. The view is represented in the works of Scott Pect, whose works in the field of applied psychology explored the definitions of love and evil. He maintians that love is a combination of the "cpncern for the spiritual growth of another" and simple narcissism. In combination, love is an activity, no simply a feeling.

Love is an activity! Come on! Let's love!

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