In scientific terms, humans and animals are different in the aspect that we are scenario builders. We are able to tell stories, learn from the past, and imagine. Humans are able to create things in their mind that are not in reality. [] Imagination. Only having biological urges to reproduce is the process to pass down our genes to the next generation. Animals all have this kind of urge to survive in its environment.
Love is not only the biological urge to reproduce, but it is more. That is because we are able to create our own feelings. If this is so, love becomes a feeling that is subjective. Love couldn’t be an idea that is completely mutual, because one’s …show more content…
It is up to us to love or not. Here, the idea of existentialism comes back into play. In Sartre’s “Existentialism”, he explains that we aren’t able to have the choice to exist, but are responsible in every way we are, in our actions. If we don’t have religion to blame our actions towards, it is up to us to think, feel, act, and live. And love. Love is something that we could create within ourselves, something we could actually turn into reality. Creation, distinction, and connection play an important role in giving our subjective perspective and meaning of love some value. Love can’t be defined, but love could be the key to define who we actually