The Chemicals Between Us

To question the authenticity of an emotion or lasting goal as influenced by a dopamine enriched drug addicted state is to ignore a simultaneous function in an illogical attempt to compartmentalize it into a cause and effect.  We are chemical, neurotransmitters, hormones, DNA, everything.  This doesn’t discredit one emotion or action over another. Everyone likes to discuss dopamine and oxytocin, no one blames adrenaline, serotonin, gaba, endorphins, glutamate, or any of the other chemical we need to function for more than what they are. If we were consistent with this line of thinking we would say we’re addicted to water, to breathing, to sleeping, to being alive. They regulate every facet of our being for preservation, all of them.

Drugs manipulate the chemicals we already have within us, I was just dealing with this a week ago, and I hate how manipulating levels through scripts is essentially medically backed trial and error.  External factors influence our choices to an extent but to look at all of this in such a black and white perspective would be a fallacy and a disservice. We are not that simple.  Knowing the science that occurs behind love doesn’t take away from the magic, doesn’t water it down, and doesn’t make it fraudulent and fleeting.  We don’t love someone because the chemicals picked at random to start flooding and someone, anyone, happened to be in our presence.  And there’s no order, I think this is simultaneous.  We’re going to start converging from science to philosophy regarding love (I don’t feel like it).  But love isn’t bad, isn’t an addiction, isn’t some chemically induced lie, and can’t be simplified because we have a better understand of what goes on internally. This doesn’t devalue anything. The presence of those internal reactions reinforces it’s authenticity to me.  Trying to downplay what’s going on by relegating it to an addiction is only a lie you tell yourself.

It’s not like it’s a big deal, you’re only hurting yourself, you’re only hurting me.

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