This will be a short one. I hear it said all the time that you can not love more than one person at one time. More specifically you can't be in love with more than one person at one time. In my opinion I have to call bullshit. When I speak to people regarding others in their lives they usually have interesting things to say. For example; when I spoke with one woman in particular who had a very dramatic life she indicated all the people in her life who she did not like and those that she down right abhorred. Multiple people with some very strong emotion behind it. However when I speak to women they say that we as human beings (particularly men) can't be in love with more than one person (one woman) at a time. They say that it isn't real for any one other than the one they should be with. Yet these same women can run down a laundry list of women and men that they hate.
HATE.... that is a very strong emotion. I would say it has equal play on the field of emotion as love does and it is just as strong. Some wondrous things have been done in the name of both love and hate. Yet they are telling me that the human mind can process this strong emotion of hate for a MULTITUDE of people yet love... love can't be processed for more than one person at a time. Makes me scratch my head. How can that be?
Research on emotion has increased significantly in just my life time alone. I can't wait to see what else further develops. I know people are accused of wearing their emotions on their sleeves. Realistically very few actually go around carrying all of the emotions that they have for every person that they have in their lives with them at all times.
Whether those feelings be love or hate or all the others in between our brains compartmentalize our feelings. I think we would be purely nuts if we had all of our emotions come out at one time and in regards to everyone we love or hated. Now that would be overwhelming. Think about this. The human mind processes so much information that we take in all the hours while awake. It remembers conversations we had with playmates when we were 4 years old. It processes all the things we see, hear, taste, touch. Categorizes all of that, stores it for memory and recollection and even while doing all of that it runs a multitude of subconscious routines that keep us alive and healthy. It regulates your heart beat, draws breath into your lungs, controls your digestion, etc, etc, etc. For the most part the brain unconscious/subconscious activities include repressed feelings, automatic skills, subliminal perceptions, thoughts, habits, and automatic reactions, and possibly also complexes, hidden phobias and desires. So for one to say that it is not capable of processing a multitude of emotion is really not accurate. I think it is mainly the selfish condition of human beings that do not want others to be able to process love or being in love with more than one person at a time.
This is just my pinprick of light and ensight, however it may still be too bright for some to gaze upon.
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