Page 16 - Seniorstoday June 2022 Issue

First Person

Matters of love

& heart

For Vickram Sethi, music and love are intertwined in a never-ending love
story

You must understand, though the touch of various chemical reactions in your brain.
your hand Think of the time that you met someone you
Makes my pulse react found attractive. You probably stammered,
That it’s only the thrill of boy meeting girl your palms may have sweated and you
Opposites attract could have said something incredibly
It’s physical stupid. Chances are your heart was
Only logical thumping in your chest. Probably because
You must try to ignore that it means more of these ‘symptoms’, people for centuries
than that thought that love and other emotions
Oh-oh, what’s love got to do, got to do with originate from the heart. Now it turns out
it? that love is a chemical reaction that makes
What’s love but a second-hand emotion? the body behave like a robot who’s lost its
What’s love got to do, got to do with it? bearings!
Who needs a heart when a heart can be
broken?
From Tina Turner’s hit song, ‘What’s Love
Got to Do with It?’

How did the human heart become
associated with love? Google the phrase
Chemistry Of Love, and you will get so
many answers and theories confirming
that the science behind love is more
complex that we think. Nothing about love
is associated with the heart. It’s all about

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