‘Love is like catching a falling star.’

I don’t think that love can be defined in any way as a biological necessity. Life as we know it could exist and develop quite happily without it.Darwinian evolution, casual friendships, sexual relations could all happen without love. It exists in its own category and in many respects is an unwanted and dangerous vulnerability that works against survival of the fittest ‘he gave his life for his friend’. Like a falling star impossible to catch or define yet there in all its translucent beauty it lays at the the core of what it is to be human. Where does it come from? Empirical experience and science tells us that everything in the universe is there for a purpose , nothing is superfluous , even if to begin with we can’t understand why. Everything that is has a physical property and obeys certain fundamental laws. Creation whether or not you believe in a divine first mover, produced a chain of events that gave us matter which gave us an understandable universe everything else is void nothing.

But love isn’t matter it isn’t instinct and it’s certainly not void. So logically it’s part of creation and for me it’s most miraculous component. Consciously or unconsciously we all seek, although often as not in the wrong places. Aquinas postulated five proofs of God which for me the law of motion being the most compelling. But how do you account for love which in spite of its mysticism lays at the heart of all that is most positive and good in the universe that surrounds us? It cannot be blind chance it is the ultimate answer to who put the olive in the martini.