Love: An Act of the Will, Not of the Heart

Love: An Act of the Will, Not of the Heart


It has been a very common argument as to which is responsible for the feeling of “love”. Some people claim that it is the heart that makes us fall in love with someone. They say that our heart is the indicator if we are in love or not. We could only say that we are falling in live if our heart beats extraordinarily fast.

Now this has been a strong argument for those people who does not believe that it is our heart that indicates we are in love. They strongly insist that it is the man's brain who is in control of all our feeling including the feeling of love. It is our brain that orders the heart to beat(even if a man is not in love).
But this explanation has also been counter rebut by the prior. They say that once the head is cut in an instance, the heart continues to beat for quite a long time, this is a strong proof according to them the heart will still function even without the brain.

So therefore, which is right and which is wrong? Is love really an act of the will(by virtue of the brain) or by heart?

In my own and independent opinion, since i have already felt love before( who in my age does not?), i found it to be the will of the HEART. If we are to look at it psychologically, our brain, as a rational individual, really seeks for pleasure and refrains from pain. If we are in love, we have an equal tendency of being hurt than being happy with the partner we chose. So if it is he “brain” who facilitate the feeling, then it would not gamble to be hurt since it seeks pleasure over pain. When we decide to fall in love, there is no assurance of success that is why, it is very impossible to assume the heart as the one responsible for people falling in love! And besides, when we gamble to love someone, we are said to be dedicated, and dedication is more of the heart than the brain.

That is perhaps the reason why he sentence “I love you with all my HEART.” is coined rather than “I love you with all my BRAIN!”(it sucks!!). And normally, rational as we are, it is more believable and relevant to hear from someone that he/she is broken hearted than he/she is broken or mashed brain!!!(very funny!).

We also hear that “there is no right or wrong in loving”. So this only means that it surely is not our brain who controls the feeling of love otherwise, there would already right in loving since our brain really seeks for truth and for what is right!

everybody is entitled to his or her opinion, we just have to defend our stand or side on an issue or argument.