What the heck is a "love expert"?

On the radio I heard a clip to watch the local news because a "love expert" was going to talk about love. Really? A love expert? Do you go to school and get a degree for that?


Of all the unexplained mysteries of the world, love has to top the list. With its many facets, we spend a lifetime trying to understand and explain love. Poets define it in flowery words. Musicians put it to music. Artists add color to it. Psychologists analyize it. Doctors scan the brain for it. Most people accept, stumble, and fumble with it.

Let's go retro back to the 70s for a minute.

Love is...
...happiness and sadness at the same time
...comforting and upsetting at the same time
...ego booster and heart breaker at the same time
...euphoric and depressive at the same time
...intimate and lonely at the same time
...altruistic and selfish at the same time
...as one and schizophrenic at the same time
...everywhere and nowhere at the same time

After spending a lifetime trying to understand love, in the end, the realization that we never really did understand it nor did we ever really define it smacks us up side the head like a wet flounder.

With all of its incongruencies, how can anyone claim to be "an expert on love"? A fisherman, perhaps? They get smacked up side the head by a wet flounder all the time.
 
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Mark Darien
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