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Variety is what people crave.  Boredom is what people seek to avoid.  Yet familiarity is what lights the warmth in our hearts.  Like all things of this world, this emotional paradox of a triangle is actually circular in nature.  To avoid boredom, we find variety.  To find variety, we must first escape familiarity.  Once gone too far, we regress to familiarity, which in another context, may translate to boredom.  We are taught to think in a linear fashion, which I believe creates an unsettling state of heart.  I propose a circular philosophy.  It is natural to go through these points of boredom, variety, and familiarity.  Do not think that you are getting away from each point after you’ve reached them.  Think of it as if you were going through it.  When bored, look forward to variety, when extended in variety, look forward to familiarity; and when boredom sets in, you start all over.  Embrace the circle and it shall disrupt your soul no longer. 

I recently fell madly in love with a girl named Mandy.  In the haze of the honeymoon period, we often question just how real this feeling is, and how it will actually feel a year from now, or 3 years from now.  The Discovery Channel claims that this feeling is purely biochemical and that it will not last beyond an average of 18 months.  Though factual, I refuse to let go of my biochemical high.  This begs the question: How does one physically prolong the release of the biochemical cocktail that produces this euphoria?  That is my quest.

Let’s assume this fall into a bell curve.  Taken the Discovery Channel’s average 18 months as a fact, of the 6 billion persons on earth, 80% or 4.8 billion persons will on average fall out of love somewhere between 3.6 months to 32.4 months.  Rough calculated, this is equivalent to 600 million persons who fall in and out of love under 3.6 months, and 600 million persons who stay in love up to and beyond 3 years. 

Please note that this doesn’t mean that people just break up after the love is gone.  We all know that it transforms to another level of love, comfort and familiarity, which ultimately works for approximately 50% of our marriages. 

The holy grail is to find out how to be one of the 600 million persons that make the euphoria ever lasting.  Given this, I am now attempting my own theory.  Keep it mysterious.  Never completely understand the other person.  Continuously learn, be creative and bring surprise to the relationship.  Really, the only way to do this is to regress to middle school crush mentality.  Back in the day, pulling a girl’s hair was a subconscious level of foreplay.  Imagine that.  The simplicity of it all. 

I received terrible grades in Chemistry in high school.  I think I may do better this time around.  And if that doesn’t work for you, email me, I know a cool website that sells nurse uniforms.