To Fall Into Love

Of all the possible verbs associated with Love, falling is the one we probably most associate with Love. For emphasis even, we elaborate on the falling as “head over heels” or cartwheeling in Love. Sounds more like something that happens to you rather than something that you do or subscribe to. The closest thing to something you do that causes people to fall in Love is the 36-questions exercise developed by psychologists around 1997. (That is, of course, if you discount the use of Love potions that acts in place of Cupid’s arrow. In which case, we’d all be ordering from Amazon instead of dating. By the way, we all know that The Love Boat was pure fiction, right?) But back to falling, we normally never intend to fall, unless by accident. Perhaps tripping into Love is a more apt description, like stubbing one’s toe (or being crushed), but far less Romantic. The real kicker (pardon the pun) is we neither have the choice of who falls for us but who we fall for, current-day celebrities excluded). How cruel is that? Would you agree with me that humans have been falling in Love longer than potions/aphrodisiacs became a plot device and 36 questions replaced marriage counseling? Either way, join the fun in discussing it.