I have been learning this semester about the feedback mechanisms that our body uses to bring about certain results. Most of these responses use negative feedback mechanisms. Put simply that means that the body detects something that’s not quite normal, let’s use high body temperature as an example, so it does something make the body temperature lower. When the body temperature is low enough, the body stops that response. But a select few things use a positive feedback mechanism, and one of these things is childbirth. When the uterus contracts this causes the baby to move down putting pressure on the cervix. When the cervix detects pressure, a signal is sent to the uterus telling it to contract more, putting even more pressure on the cervix, until it finally opens to allow the baby passage to the world. This is positive feedback.
I believe love is a bit like childbirth. It uses a positive feedback. Or at least this has been my experience. When a person is shown love in it’s true sense, this makes them want to show love also. So that person shows love to someone as well. It could be to a person that has shown them love, or to someone completely different. But this causes the person that they show love to, in turn to want to do the same, and so love increases.
There is one major difference between love and childbirth. There comes a point when childbirth ends. A baby has been born and it continues no further. Love, though, does not have to end. Love can go on forever.
