It beats about a hundred thousand times each day, weighs about 10 ounces for a man and 8 ounces for a woman. It’s made up of 78 percent water and is about the size of a clenched fist for a child, two fists for an adult. It pumps about 5 quarts of blood each minute – approximately 2,000 gallons of blood each day – throughout the body. It has 4 chambers and 2 valves, the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium and left ventricle. This is what we call the heart. An organ located in the center of our chest, between our lungs, the bottom of the heart is tipped to the left, so you feel more of your heart on your left side of your chest. The heart is but an organ, made of muscle.
It makes our stomach feel as if it has butterflies in it. Sometimes, we can’t eat due to extreme happiness or extreme sadness. It makes us see things others cannot see. It is a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude towards a person. An intense emotional attachment. An expression of one’s affection. It makes tears fall out of our eyes, whether it be joy or sorrow. This is what they call love. The desire for someone you hold dear, endless nights filled with dreams of only two characters in it. This is love. Love is but a feeling, an emotion.
Why do we associate the heart with love? Does love have a shape similar to that of the heart?
Without the heart, the body dies completely. Without the heart, the human body won’t function because no blood circulation would run throughout the body. It is the center of the human body. It is hidden inside our body and would only be seen when cut opened our body.
We always say “we would do everything for the ones we love”, we would even die for them. There are different degrees of affection, greatest is love, and lowest is just attraction. Love is just as the same as the heart. Love makes the blood rush, love is the center of our feelings. We don’t see love, just like the heart. But when we feel our chest, we feel that thumping feeling. We feel that our heart exists. Just like love, we just need to feel it, acknowledge and appreciate its presence and love exists. No greater emotion is there than to love. We feel our greatest joys with it, along with that our greatest sorrows as well.
When we say the word “heart” when associating it with the word love, it is more likely to be talking about an obscure, hidden and unseen part of them that houses all their emotions. Just like the heart in the body that is the source of blood and pumps it throughout the body, the heart in love is the source of those emotions that flows out throughout the body.
The heart isn’t just an organ. The heart itself is love. We have two hearts; the heart that’s in the body and the heart that’s in love. Heart really is love.
