Love is nothing but a series of happy coincidences?

Originally posted here on January 24, 2006:

"Love is nothing but a series of happy coincidences."

Hmm. So you're saying that man's pursuit of happiness (e.g love) is a seemingly worthless rollercoaster which can all be summed up by man fooling him/herself into thinking that he/she is genuinely happy (read: in love)? Does this theory only hold true for love or the whole gamut of human emotions? Happiness? Sorrow? Fulfillment? Bliss? Do we HAVE to "convince" ourselves we're happy in order to really BE happy? Are you saying LOVE doesn't even exist and we are all driven by our desire to obtain something that we don't even know EXISTS in the first place? Is love to us what "the holy grail" was to the crusades? All in our head? What is LOVE anyway? A feeling? A choice? An agreement between people? Whew.. A rather sweeping generalization but I'm glad you wrote it.. made me think.

Personally.. I believe in love. Yes it is intangible, but me believing in it gives it purpose: I can derive happiness from it. Does it exist? To me it does, and I guess that makes all the difference. I believe in it, therefore it exists. Much like our belief in God(read: NOT blasphemy), religion, faith.. all rest on the existence of intangibles.

Hmm..