In our current high speed, non-stop daily lives we find it hard to even get just a minute or two to sit down and eat, so how are people expected to spend time working on relationship problems? If only there was a simple way to fix those problems. Well according to scientists, there may soon be an easy fix to “solving troubles of the heart.”
In the article Love Potions Could Soon Help Soothe the Pains of Romance by Ian Sample, Sample talks about how scientists have been coming up with a “potion” to help people fall back into love. According to Larry Young, “greater understanding of the brain chemistry of love has revealed hormones that could be given to couples to rekindle faded passions or diminish problematic feelings.” He also states that “scientists are close to reducing the mental state of love to a biochemical chain of events, paving the way for powerful new treatments for the lovelorn.” This potion would use two hormones, oxytocin and vasopressin which have been found to be crucial in creating a close bond with another person. Even though the potion has still not been created, scientists hope to create it soon to help couples who are struggling. Although this might sound ideal and perfect for relationship problems, how do we know it works? We don’t. There is no proof that this will work. Even if it does work, there is no evidence proving that you will be attracted to the same person. So why spend all this time trying to create it. The answer is simple: it will give us an easy way to find and maintain love.
One thing I will take away from this article is how people are so unwilling to work for something they want. In our society, people nowadays are getting so used to just getting what they ask for or always having an easy access to what they need/want so that when the time comes for them to actually have to work for something they easily give up. Although I am still very young and am not some marital counselor, one thing I have noticed is that people have to work for love. It is not something that just can just take a “potion” for and it will be fixed. It is something people spend years to find and something they spend years to perfect. And although it doesn’t always work out, it is that one thing that keeps us as humans going. So I feel that no matter what scientists think and say, you can’t force someone to love you; you have to work for it. No potion is going to help.
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Love your thoughts about our societies tendency to want immediate satisfaction. I often think that we have this illusion that love is immediate and should be easy. I think that any lasting relationship requires a lot of work.
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