Segment II: Love
Why do we love?
This is a question that I, personally, believe many people ask themselves. Especially those who're bonded with a member of the opposite sex. The answer is so simple, so incredibly anticlimactic, that it leaves many disappointed.
The reason we, as humans, love is due to extreme attraction to a member of the opposite sex and because our animalistic instinct is to reproduce. No matter if you think it is "shallow", it is true: one of our sole universal purposes is to reproduce. The male gender is stimulated at the mere thought of a sexual partner from the female gender. The females share the same feelings, but it is by far less powerful.
I was confronted by the idea that each of us have a destined soul mate for one another. The idea intrigued me, so I decided to set up an experiment to see if the process actually worked.
In a nearby town, I had sent out invitations to certain human people, posing as a matchmaking service (oh how the urges of humans never cease to fail me!). Since I no longer hold any emotions, I was forced to rely on things I've read to tell me what was considered attractive in the human race. I invited two handsome (according to my literature), muscular men and put them in different rooms. In one room, with one man, I put in ten obese women who shared the same interests as the man, and one luscious woman with the other eleven who was nothing like the man. In the next room, I simply put one attractive woman with nothing in common with the second man. I locked the two alone in the room with limited food and water, but left the door unlocked in the first room.
For the next three weeks, I observed what occurred in each room. In Room A, the man avoided the obese women and went directly for the attractive one at first. However, as time went on, he developed a close friendship with one of the obese women. Soon, the excitement that he had sexually towards the attractive woman was equaled by his strong friendship with the obese woman. As excited as my heartlessness allowed me, I removed the other obese women and observed who the man would choose. To my surprise, he chose the obese woman. I allowed them to leave and put down all of my observations in a locked filing cabinet. To this day, I do believe they are married with three kids.
In the Room B, however, I observed something more remarkable. The two people had absolutely nothing in common, and argued constantly. However, by the end of the three weeks, they had made love twice and considered themselves a couple, going as far as expressing their love for one another.
With this even more fascinating information, I came to the conclusion that, no matter what two people are together, as long as they're of the opposite sex and heterosexual, they will eventually "fall in love". Ending that way is inevitable.
Of course, it is by far a much more happier mating when the two people are not only sexually attracted to each other, but also close friends who enjoy each other's company. It is our nature to perform rituals such as dating, in order to find the most enjoyable mate. Like the stork's mating dance. We want to mate with a suitable caterer, and I understand now that what we truly enjoy is people who have things in common with us. All humans are, in a way, narcissists, because we look for traits we have whilst looking for a mate. Others keep their more animalistic nature and randomly reproduce with whoever is generally attractive. I find this latter process to be a greedy one, going back to the self-pleasers from Segment I.
Overall, based on my observations, the answer is no: we do not have "soul mates". We do, however, have fascinating rituals to find ourselves, our own mentalities, inside other people, then build bonds upon these mentalities and eventually reproduce. So, it is clear why some people take their own lives over these bonds…sometimes they're so strong, even just to one person, that it can be devastating. If I had pity to give, I would give it to the heartbroken. Mating, "love", is golden. Having it taken from you must be horrid.
I could be wrong, however, for all I know. I no longer feel "love". But I've studied hard, and I think I've got it correct. Doesn't matter; I'm the only one with half an idea of how anything works in the Organization.
If you ask me, I should be in charge…