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Happy birthday Charles Darwin! How interesting that one of the world’s most pre-eminent thinkers on nature’s diversification should be born so close to Valentine’s Day. Darwin may have shone the light on the process of natural selection, yet Love still remains one of life’s great mysteries. Who knows why we choose the people we do, or if it’s even a choice? And honestly, I like the mystery. I’d rather have that than an analytical discussion of survival of the fittest and whose genes are stronger. That steamy attraction between you and a stranger (maybe he looks like Keanu Reeves—at least he does to me!) as your glances meet across the room… the unbreakable bond between mother and newborn child… the strengthening intimacy that grows among friends who have known each other since birth… all the permutations of an emotion that make life a tapestry of joy. It’s either completely random, or completely destined. What do you think?

In that spirit, I propose we all indulge in a little thinking about what love really means to us. Like that airport scene in Love, Actually, it’s true—love really is all around. I’ll leave you with a quotation from the time of Julius Caesar, and sometimes ascribed to Catullus, according to Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations:

Let those love now who never loved before;
Let those who always loved, now love the more.

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