I now have the urge to Do Unto Others, so the H.I.V.E. motto goes. To create, to destroy, to mourn, to celebrate, instead of navelgazing. So I offer this minor spiel. 

Do whales get mood swings? Do cats? Do gorillas? Do elephants? Mood swings are related to bipolar disorder. Are there bipolar whales?

And this goes back all the way around to the question of what makes us human. As opposed to whales. 

I don't believe whales get mood swings because of brain size relative to body mass. With large brains comes great brain problems. Like insanity, irrationality, and mood swings. (Fine line between madness and genius, anyone?)

I ask this because I wonder if it's sheer randomness that makes us human. To make leaps of faith, to be contrary to instinct, to DO because it's there. 

The side effect of this is that we also get things like the Darwin Awards. We never hear about the elephant that tried to do a headstand with a chainsaw on an inukshuk, do we?

And that leads to another thing. Love is probably a byproduct of that insanity. Gorillas mourn. Elephants mourn. But is it attachment? Survival instinct? As far as I know whales don't have love songs, only mating songs.