Love is in the air!

This may seem a bit late to talk about love; 3 days after the Valentine's day, but as I believe any time is a good time to talk about love if not to show it. Moreover there's this saying that everything is fair in love and war, in which I would like to consider only the former one, letting myself to be deliberately ignorant of the later part.
When one hears the word "Love" one usually associates it with the relationship between a man and a woman who are romantically inclined. All other forms of love either don't make it to the top of our charts or worse, we simply ignore. So more in line with the current context of Valentine's day, let's delve deep into this form of love.
In my opinion this form of love is primarily due to the result of biological programming in all living things of this world. It's like a timer which gets enabled the time one is born with an "if" condition that gets activated at the age of either 15 or 16 or in some cases of early bloomers at 12 or 13 itself. The "code" that follows this "If" condition is what this love is all about. One may assert that this is not love but either infatuation or physical attraction. I beg to differ because when a construction is built it's called a building or a house or whatever including the foundation. Similarly the foundations of physical attraction on which this love is built is love nevertheless. For a healthy relationship, if we convert this into a love to attraction ratio, wise people, lucky people succeed in increasing the numerator continuously. With such a scenario it doesn't matter even if the denominator shrinks let alone stagnate. Hence even a complex and abstract emotion such as love can be converted into a logical mathematical equation. Now it becomes easier to understand it. :-). Whatever variables that are involved in it have to be worked out on a case to case basis.

In the end one may argue, why one should love at all? why one should bear the brunt of possible love failure and the throes of pain and anguish associated with it. For all those skeptics I would like to quote Alfred Tennyson. "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all".