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I don’t know how it is that people think human emotions boil down to simple formulas. I will admit that there’s likely a very scientific explanation for human emotions, but I don’t shy away from the idea that such an explanation requires hundreds, thousands, if not millions of variables.

Let us take the idea of love, for example. As a human emotion, love is perhaps the most reverred of its kindred, since it is an emotion not easily attained. As an emotion placed upon so high a pedestal, I believe it bears a good illustration for scientific analysis. It has thusly been argued:

Nature, of course, is the only element that perseveres beyond the control enacted by the females, for it drives not only emotion, but the natural order of all things. Though entropy is certainly present in the world today, it is not as powerful a force as one may suspect, despite its recent growth. For though order is seemingly created through the technocratic paradigm that is the world tomorrow, we cannot ignore the vast plains of chaos, for they veer from corner to corner, encompassing the niches that we forget about, or overlook, in our design of the next society. Even still, it is nature that drives this chaos; it is nature that drives the lack of order, as well as the agents of its design.

To grasp the meaning of love is a simple matter of grasping fact, not conjecture. Love has previously been described as an almost magical state, a fact that I spit upon, and decree a lie. In fact, love is nothing more than a complex set of variables, that, when paired, equate an objectifiable relationship. There is no soul mate, other than possibly finding a more “perfect” (or a more exact) match than when pairing the individual with another person. This is key, for it acknowledges that there is no fate, but rather that destiny is in the mind of the beholder, or enactor, to conquer at their own will. This further explains the tumultuous relationships of our era, and those of the past, by way of probability, for a perfect match is difficult to find given only X amount of variables, and Y amount of individuals carrying a near-fit, with the already deficient X variables in place. We find ourselves in a world not driven by the relationships reminiscent of the existence of a soul mate, but rather by sheer need for procreation and emotional security. In other words, nature has maintained control of the human will, keeping us from staggering further into the next stage of evolution; man remains animal, and machine does not prosper.

Yet, the question that needs to be asked, then, is whether or not we can persevere in the era in which we live, and strive to bypass or circumvent the natural order. This, of course, is not entirely conjecture, for historically, our evolution is based entirely on destroying nature’s chains, reaching a climax of success that breaches the confines of the natural way. And thus we evolve. As is likely, we will further leave behind our natural ways, and succumb to a more objectifiable path. Through proper selection, we can maintain man’s status quo, enacting selection so perfect, and so near a match as possible, that we will find not only a partner capable of true emotional connection, but one that will allow us to create offspring in a more perfect world. Though the natural order becomes succinct at this stage, and possibly lacking in entirety as mate-selection becomes moot, the fact remains that love, as we see it, must invariably become ordered, and entropy therefore, becomes locked away, where it will grow in silence.

For the time being, however, since we cannot dwell in the future, we must live in the shadow that is today, and in it, consider our options for the proper selection of a partner. We are thereby left with only two appropriate options for establishing a fortunate alliance between two members of the opposite sex:

One, we can continue searching for a soul mate that does not exist, leaving us to a search that will either end in failure, or one that will end in success. Only, this “success” of which we speak is only a close enough match that time has allowed, for as one grows more tired of looking, they will inevitably give in to lower standards than which they had when they set out upon their journey. If they attempt to maintain these standards, they will revert to the previous outcome, dying alone, without true happiness. Either way, the individual will not have succeeded in their quest, leaving this option hardly desirable for the logical thinker.

Two, the individual in question can disregard any and all standards for spiritual partnership, and simply search for a fit that is desirable enough to warrant adequate comfort. This is the only solution desirable for the logical thinker, who wishes to find happiness, and not waste his life in a quest that will end in an undesirable fashion.

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