Fading, Flimsy, Fluttering, Fleeting Love Love. It’s a beautiful thing; few people would deny this. Love can make a person better as they strive to become the best that they can be, in order to secure the love of their beloved. It can give us inhuman strength and determination when the object of our affections is threatened; Lydia Angiyou even fought off a polar bear in order to protect her children(Hadhazy n.p. 2016). It inspires us to create art and monuments to prove our love to the world; the Taj Mahal is a testament to this. But what happens when love becomes tainted when we experience break ups or rejection from the person we cherish? The love that we had becomes infected and festers, becoming a malignant shadow of what it once was. It haunts us at night, twisting and warping until it can no longer be recognized or…show more content… This is because rejection is built into the human psyche, it goes all the way back to the days when we were still in hunter-gatherer groups; rejection from the group would mean that you were alone and more likely to be preyed on. Over the years, the human reaction to rejection has become so extreme that “brain imaging shows similarities between romantic rejection and cocaine craving. Rejection hurts so acutely because we get addicted to the relationship, only to have it taken away from us. And after, just like a drug addiction, we go through withdrawal.” (Durayappah n.p. 2011) This showcases the severity of rejection and just how much it can hurt at first. Along with this, humans aren’t good at dealing with loss in general; humans react more strongly to losing something than to gaining something (Durayappah), which means that after a rejection or break up, we might feel too broken inside. We feel like there’s no hope for us and that we will never find happiness
