Can a rational person actually fall in love and stay conscious while doing it?
🧠 Reason • ❤️ Love • 🙏 Gratitude
Raw audio in Russian + English translation.
No script. No edits. Just thoughts unfolding in real time.
Welcome to my first Substack audio experiment. The recording comes from a personal archive of thousands of spontaneous voice memos—unscripted, unedited, and never meant for publication. I’m fascinated by how speaking out loud often surfaces phrases and insights I’d never consciously write down. Below you’ll find the original Russian audio alongside a full English translation. If this format resonates with you, I’d love to hear your thoughts.
(0:00) So, I’ve got this question that came up. Can a rational person actually fall in love?
(0:10) I’d like to reflect on reason and love, on reason as distinct from mere intellect. And how you “lose your mind,” lose reason when falling in love.
And what even is infatuation, love? What’s going on with the hormones? How does this affect the brain, intelligence, reason?
(0:42) If a person is rational—meaning they’ve learned to manage emotions, feelings, and thoughts. Conscious, as we usually say. Consciousness is about managing your own manifestations.
(0:59) Meaning, you’re the master in your own inner space. And you know how to manage it. But managing doesn’t mean suppressing.
(1:13) So if you notice that energy is rising, hormones are kicking in, you even feel yourself getting carried away. As a rational person, you can observe this. In principle, you could, of course, just say: “That’s it, quiet down all neurons, hush hormones, jump around a bit and calm down, that’s all.”
(1:42) “I’m a rock, and you can’t shake me.” Well, that’s possible too.
(1:49) Or perhaps a rational person, on the contrary, would say: “Oh, energy’s flowing, that’s awesome, the sea is knee-deep, I can do anything. And that’s great—I’m in my flow.” Overall, that’s a good thing.
(2:11) So falling in love is energetically beneficial. And a rational person might actually choose to amplify this, since it’s efficient—your actions have higher ROI. Actions come easily to you. You can communicate with people more effortlessly, energy appears there. So the question is: where to direct this energy.
(2:39) Overall, perhaps reason is about managing this kind of energy, which you’re able to notice within yourself in the moment. What does infatuation even mean, right? It’s probably a resonance with another person. Or even not with a person per se, but with some higher, better state of your own, which this person activated and revealed in you—or rather, helped you to manifest, so that suddenly within you emerges that state in which you feel better.
(3:31) And knowing this, you feel grateful to that person. You understand that they carry certain energy, certain frequencies and vibrations, which, with the right resonance, activate something within you too, right? And so you’re enjoying it—well, for example, I’m enjoying it with gratitude, yes? Meaning, I understand that regardless of how things unfold later, and whatever that other person does or thinks, however events may turn out, the activation has already happened—so I already feel good, and that means there’s reason to be grateful for the moment itself.
(4:22) And so, if I see this person tomorrow, hear them, whatever—enter into interaction with them, I’m already open from this feeling of gratitude for the fact that I was able to feel a different state within myself, which is, well, somewhat better than usual, right?
(4:44) So it turns out that if I act rationally, I can consciously choose to fall in love out of gratitude, or, by the way, fall in love in response out of gratitude. That’s quite funny, what I just said—I’m just curious myself.
(5:08) So, the more conscious a person is, the more rational they are, the better they’ve learned to manage their thoughts, emotions, feelings, right? Meaning, this whole dance of neurons and hormones, yes? So, in what way... what? Well, I mean: to what extent is the state of infatuation managed, tracked, and regulated by them.
(5:43) And I think that a rational person, of course, will allow themselves to get carried away—with gratitude, with curiosity and interest. They’ll observe this whole process and act according to reason, yes, according to circumstances. But they won’t plunge headfirst into the abyss like an irrational person, and they won’t succumb to suffering. So if something doesn’t work out, they’ll, so to speak, wisely step back, shake hands, and part ways.
(6:22) There you go—but unharmed, with gratitude inside.
Is this format useful?
Let me know in the comments — I’m testing the waters.
Easily legible format, thank you.