Benefits of falling in love

At times we wonder, is it worth it? Is it worth it to fall in love?

Well, I don't pretend to tell you what is the correct answer, for it is something that varies person to person. My reasons differ from yours, and so on. But, I will do give you my opinion along with some fast research I did.

I believe it is worth it to fall in love. Why? For many reasons!

Being in love gives us many emotional, physical and psychological benefits. 

Being in love makes us feel better, great, happy, and just plain giddy. 

As my profile states, I am a psychology student and I have learned quite a few things. One of the things I learned which surprised me and made me understand better this love emotion, has to do with neurotransmitters. 

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that, when balanced or with a little too much flowing around in your head, makes you feel great. It's the one that deals with how happy or sad you are. It is actually very associated with depression, for when you have low levels of serotonin, you become depressed. But to the point, when we are in love, we generate this transmitter and we balance it's levels, perhaps we even produce more than necessary, and this is why when we are in love we are happier, merrier and plain just giddy.

On the same note, falling in love calms the body which allows it to stimulate nerve growth which pretty much restores your nervous system creating new brain cells making you smarter!

Also, given the nature of what falling in love is, we connect to others in a very deep emotional way that, believe it or not, has payed off in fighting ovarian cancer. You see, the University of Iowa has found in a recent study that patients with ovarian cancer that have a good relationship with others (like the relationships we're talking about here), have better chance to eliminate cancerous cells around tumors than those patients that lack this type of relationship.

Another benefit of falling in love is in relation to the heart. According to Dr. John Marsden PhD, when we talk with someone we find attractive, the brain gets excited and sends impulses to the heart which accelerate the pumping rhythm by three times improving the body's circulation, this being why we feel "butterflies" in our stomach.

And another reason, amongst many others that I will leave out, love makes us stay young. It does this because when we are in love, we release endorphins that help keep our skin soft, smooth and decrease wrinkles. 

So in conclusion, love brings  a lot of benefits. It also gives us someone to talk to and share a lot of experiences with which will last forever. Sure we could talk about the disadvantages of love, like broken hearts and frustration, but when we look at the benefits we can minimize these and think better about love. 

In the end, positive or negative, love brings us life experiences that will help us grow, mature and appreciate life for how it is. I believe that be it love, or new things, or whatever it is that life has in store for us, we shouldn't give it our back without at least trying it first. Because life is like the world, it goes round and round and it brings us many surprises that makes us happy, sad, mad, content, but it is, in the end, what makes us feel alive. 

Reference:

http://health.ninemsn.com.au/family/womenshealth/695370/the-health-benefits-of-love