Quote Originally Posted by Fuzakeru View Post
I wonder why it is that society teaches children that love is such a magical thing when it seems most of us as adults are less inclinded to think so...
Because children are becoming the only one's capable of hope and innocence in this world. If we told them that love came from swirling chemicals in our brain when we find another person attractive in some manner, that innocence wouldn't really be.. as innocent. And taint all the innocent children, we'd end up with a mass ammount of bitter teens and adults, with even less of a chance of making the world better. Love is easier for a child to comprehend too, hence most fairy tales deal with love and not life and death as a main plot.

Not to mention, not just society tells children, but in fairy tales that adult's have either lost hope for or found irrationality in believing that "fairy tales do come true". A 5 year old may have all the hopes and dreams in the world to find love in the manner that cinderella did, where as a 25 year old wouldn't really count on it.