The Essence of Love Begins When Infatuation Ends

What makes us so hungry for attention and affection that we become so foolish and unrecognizable when we receive it from a person that catches our eye?

In the past, I’ve definitely been the victim of the syndrome properly known as Infatuation. However, I’d like to think that I’ve learned (or at least am learning) to both keep my emotions from getting ahead of reality and to always keep an outside perspective when it comes to human relations.

How can such a brief encounter produce such a conundrum of false hope? How can our minds get sucked into this black hole of neediness and desperation after experiencing one stint of intoxicating chemistry?

It’s as simple as this: it only takes one small spark to be burnt beyond recognition.

This is what I’ve found to be true about infatuation:
-It makes us foolish and leaves us vulnerable to the world around us.
-It blinds us from reality and places a wall between us and sufficient perspective.
-It hinders us from seeing the big picture.
-It is very unattractive to the world around us.
-It causes the world around us, including the ones we love, to fade away.

However, the syndrome makes us feel good for a time. And the reality which it blinds us from is often times one that is not worth being realized. Many people probably find it difficult to stomach the big picture, but I’m one that can’t survive without that (sometimes disturbing) portrait!

For those of you reading: if someone has recently caught your eye, and you think you might be infatuated with them, I suggest you take a step back and make sure the world around you isn’t being neglected.

Just a suggestion ;-)