PhiloPsycho Freedom

Worked in the morning, drank most of the rest of the day to celebrate the solstice. Fireworks in Windsor at the night.

The running soundtrack of my life had his pause last Tuesday and finally resumed as of today to celebrate the solstice. It's not the same to hang by the pool without music. This is why I've excused the use of an iPod and speakers.

You know that Ke$ha song? Yeah, you know it. See if you can guess which one I mean. Phenylethylamine (PEA) is what we associate with the feeling of love. It is a neurochemical which quite literally gets us high. My friend and I got to wondering about it: if it's a drug, it'll act like a drug - addiction, capacity, tolerance, withdrawals, and all. Thinking like that, I realized the addictive capacity for different forms of relationships. With functioning long-distance relationships, you get a quick, strong fix, then a long break between exposures in comparison to their non-long distance counterparts. This would keep the strength of the dose relatively constant and not dwindle in intensity over time. In contrast, close-distance relationships should dwindle quickly due to overexposure of the drug, and probably build dependence.

Then, if we take each type and watch them as the convert (long-to-short distance (LtS); short-to-long distance (StL)), they should act differently, also. LtS should get a huge boost from coming closer, which might dwindle at a relatively fast rate due to their ability to metabolize the drug from their history with it. StL should go into withdrawal, as they're suddenly cutoff. Either of these could cause the relationships to get better or fail, as far as I can see. LtS might think the new situation is great in comparison to the old, but may eventually decide to end it because "the spark is gone". StL might rightly think that the negative feelings are caused by the lack of their partner and miss them intensely - or it could cause them to get into more fights depending on withdrawal effects (such as irritability). This is all entirely speculation and I don't really know how PEA acts. Just some thoughts on the topic.