Love is a feeling that is not subject to any clear, impartial criteria. To paraphrase the great poet, this is clearly not the case when one can “believe in harmony with algebra”. She does not obey either reason, or even an elementary instinct for self-preservation. The greatest feats and the greatest atrocities were performed for the sake of love. So can it be measured?
Instructions
Step 1
Many people are piously confident and claim: if you truly love a person, then you are ready to do anything for him! In the full sense of the word! But they are embarrassed when they are asked clarifying questions like: "Including, for any meanness, for the most terrible, vile crime?" They immediately begin to clarify themselves: do not take their words so literally. “For everything” - within reasonable limits, of course! And within what limits? How to calculate this very "rationality"? What criteria should be followed?
Step 2
Elementary logic dictates: when a person is really ready for anything for the sake of his beloved, without any restrictions, this is no longer love. Animal passion, excessive possessive instinct, insane obsession, finally, but not love!
Step 3
Exactly the same conclusion can be drawn when too much is demanded of a loved one, wanting him to show evidence of love almost every minute, but they do not want to give him anything in return. This already borders on explicit egocentrism to a particularly neglected degree. There is no smell of love here.
Step 4
Thus, 100% return and 0% return equally mean no love. So how much, in mathematical terms, "percent" indicates its presence? Maybe according to the “golden mean” rule - 50%? To "neither ours, nor yours"?
Step 5
No, it's not that simple. "The golden mean" rather means strong friendship, sincere affection. When it's just nice to communicate with a person, when you are connected by common interests, views, beliefs. But, you see, friendship is a very worthy quality, for the sake of it you can sacrifice a lot, but still it is not love.
Step 6
With a certain degree of probability, it can be assumed that if a person truly loves, then in his system of priorities there is “bestowal”. That is, the willingness to make concessions for the sake of the object of his love, difficulties, even a big risk, will fluctuate somewhere between 60% and 90%. Such a person really loves, he is ready for a lot for the sake of his beloved, but at the same time he does not forget about common sense and responsibility for all your words and deeds, does not allow love to completely cloud your head.
Step 7
A value of less than 60% indicates that he feels more friendly than love feelings for his partner, and a value of more than 90% indicates that love, most likely, has degenerated into an obsession.
