The L Word

Often, there is a conflict is between love and logic-- as if what is passionate, cannot be rational? I don't think anyone actually adopts this ideology, however it's quite often used as a protective shell to keep from facing the reality of a situation. Why is that? Is logic really a wall that is big enough to hide behind?

And here's a parallax: Consider that a logical person would understand that it's illogical to survive on logic alone! That some decisions are better made with eyes closed and heart open! So if you are the type of person that lets logic rule your daily activity- and you try to deny the one side that makes you "human"-- you are in fact in contradiction of what you claim to be.

Upon discussing this with others- logic is not the wall... insecurity is... Ironic as it may sound- but using logic to disconnect from others embodies the essence of an emotion (i.e insecurity).

Agree? Disagree? Comments..

How much love is illogical?

I think none. Human feelings are real. They have physical basis. Therefore it's logical. Love is logical. It's just a problem of how smart you are to divide it into smaller parts and understand the reasons.

Actually, I wasn't asking if love is logical or not. I more want to understand a psyche that would chose logic over raw emotion.

Human feelings are real, but I don't agree that because they are real- they also logical. For example-- jealousy.. envy.. rage-- all are emotions that often stem from an illogical pattern of thinking. Insecurity is also an emotion that stems from an illogical place, and initially, I am submitting that those who choose to only use logic do so from a place of insecurity.

Yes they are. It depends on your POV. Jealousy, envy and rage are such things that are "wrong" in common sense. But "wrong" doesn't mean illogical yet. You have take their conditions of life into account and only then judge whereither they are logical or not. Even their lack of information is a reason for such behaviours. But this is just another example of conditions. The person might perfectly acting right within these conditions. When look at things like that, then everything is logical.

"Insecurity is also an emotion that stems from an illogical place, and initially, I am submitting that those who choose to only use logic do so from a place of insecurity."

Insecurity has nothing to do with logic. People just might don't know what they want, which you have aready called as "insecurity". But logic already says that this is an insecurity, so why to hide behind the logic then? It wont help and such kind of behaviour is definetly "not logical".

The person who hides behind logic to hide insecurit is already not logical anymore. He/she already drowns in his logical fault.