Human Love And Companionship

Humans have possessed the desire to belong since the beginning of time. As a species people need companionship. With companionship comes relationships, which provides the opportunity to love and receive love. Attachment between mother and child, two spouses, or friends are examples of emotional bonding. Having relationships in life promote health, increase dopamine levels, and lower the rates of depression and suicidal tendencies. Developing the bond of belonging to someone in sharing emotions is for a segment of people, their most desired accomplishment. Overall, humans need other individuals in their lives to help them in many ways: health, happiness, and social bonding. By forming social bonds, emotional ties, and cognition. Human beings

Evolution is a key part in mankind, “human evolutionary history, specifically, the need for infants to stay close proximity” (Sternberg). For thousands of years the bond between an mother and her offspring has been an anchor in life for every person and animal today. Comparatively, in history love has been represented through different cultures in the way that those societies comonally express love in their own measures they deemed fit for their time period. As Helen Fisher said in the TED talk The Brain In Love, “ Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They’ve never found a society that did not have it” (TED Talk). An example of historic love is still standing today. In Guatemala, the tomb of King Hasaw Chan K’awil of Tikal, and ruler of the Mayan people is one of the most prevailing representations of cultural, historic and beautifully primitive love. King Hasaw is said to have had a beloved wife who died young, in remembrance of her he built a temple upon her tomb that faces his own. Therefore, “twice annually-- precisely on the spring and autumn equinox-- the sun rises behind his temple to cast its shadow directly across hers. Then as the sun sets on these special days, it casts the shadow of her temple across his tomb”