I think that love should not be metaphysical, but rather poetic. Why is love a rational emotion rather than a sign of insanity? The study of the underlying nature of reality, identity, and changes that are unavoidable does not fall under the purview of philosophy's section on love. Love is just a pure sort of madness in which you lose all sense of self, forget what reality is, and could care less about the changes that occur in life. There's a good reason why lovers are linked to madness and poetry. Only a poet and someone insane enough to endure this never-ending cycle of suffering and sorrow can still put their emotions on a dry piece of paper in a way that will cause the lovers' fools to cry. You concentrate on the phrases that have been repeated on the paper until it is now weaker than your will and is about to shred at any second, whether it is a collection of sentences that rhyme or just complete nonsense that doesn't even offer you the tiniest idea of what the heck is going on. Why does a reasonable, sensible person fall in love? To eliminate their loneliness and fill the emptiness that is growing like termites in an old bed of two divorced lovers is a straightforward inference. And I hate to tell you this, but smart people will have to get along with a few different individuals before they meet someone who will like them like crazy people adore war - Prashant Singh Rajput