It's All Within Your Heart

[Glasseye]

I'm not speaking of spirtitually, physically, but referring to everything.

Yeah. I'm slightly buzzed, but who really gives a fcuk.

[Butch]

10 minutes ago, Glasseye said:

I'm not speaking of spirtitually, physically, but referring to everything.

Yeah. I'm slightly buzzed, but who really gives a fcuk.

Nothing more painful than a broken heart, but time helps to heal it.

Odd how something emotional can be aligned with a physical lump of muscle beating away (hopefully) in the middle of out chest.

Traditionally, as the heart is seen as the organ that gives and maintains life, it also has meaning attached to it, like "lion heart" for a brave person, good heart for a kind person, big heart, kind heart, as well as negative connotations, black heart, bad heart etc.

It also transcends language, many cultures put their right hand on their hearts before a greeting, like the many of the Islamic cultures. When desperate people beg for food, they hold their open hands on their chest close to their hearts - it's very often how to read a person truly in need of something (plus the giveaway that they're not wearing a Rolex and pair of Ray Bans).

It may be because it's the internal organ we most "feel" but can't see. When the adrenaline kicks in before an event which we're expecting to have to fight or flight, we feel the heart beating harder and faster, in the same way we feel it slow down post contact.

Also, despite our modern knowledge of all things medical, we still "follow our heart" which is another way of following our intuition which may go against the sensible or most logical choice given a situation.

As long as ours keep beating though, that's all that matters.

 

 

 

 

[Glasseye]

38 minutes ago, Butch said:

Nothing more painful than a broken heart, but time helps to heal it.

Odd how something emotional can be aligned with a physical lump of muscle beating away (hopefully) in the middle of out chest.

Traditionally, as the heart is seen as the organ that gives and maintains life, it also has meaning attached to it, like "lion heart" for a brave person, good heart for a kind person, big heart, kind heart, as well as negative connotations, black heart, bad heart etc.

It also transcends language, many cultures put their right hand on their hearts before a greeting, like the many of the Islamic cultures. When desperate people beg for food, they hold their open hands on their chest close to their hearts - it's very often how to read a person truly in need of something (plus the giveaway that they're not wearing a Rolex and pair of Ray Bans).

It may be because it's the internal organ we most "feel" but can't see. When the adrenaline kicks in before an event which we're expecting to have to fight or flight, we feel the heart beating harder and faster, in the same way we feel it slow down post contact.

Also, despite our modern knowledge of all things medical, we still "follow our heart" which is another way of following our intuition which may go against the sensible or most logical choice given a situation.

As long as ours keep beating though, that's all that matters.