I love that word, always have. Lust. It just rolls off the tongue leaving a smile. If you haven't lusted after someone, you haven't lived. Lust makes you feel alert, alive and completely whole when that crave is being satisfied. In my younger days, I have to admit, I could not tell the difference between lust and love. I would of argued to my death they were one and the same. Lust is like being high. Love can be like being high. How do I know what being high feels like? Well don't ask.

Thankfully over the years I've learned the difference. The hard way of course. Lust is a Hershey bar, a Ford Fiesta and a walk in the park. Love is Godivas, a Rolls Royce and gazing down at the world from Pike's Peak. Ok...I suck at analogies, but you get my drift.

Anyway...I'm all bummed out this morning to find out it's all about brain chemicals:

Dr. Fisher and a colleague, Dr. Anderson J. Thomson Jr., have studied the brains of people in love and pored over research from the last 25 years on the neurological basis of romance. Three brain systems, all interrelated, the researchers say, control lust, attraction and attachment. Each runs on a different set of chemicals. Lust is fueled by androgens and estrogens. Attachment is controlled by oxytocin and vasopressin. And attraction, they say, is driven by high levels of dopamine and norepinephrine, as well as low levels of serotonin. As a result, they say, increasing levels of serotonin with antidepressants can cripple the sex drive but also set off an imbalance among the three systems.

Somethings I just have a need not to know.