The makings of a heart

How often do you reveal the true nature of your heart to another person? It is often stressed that the heart is a foolish choice to signify love, for no matter how the sentiment sounds the heart has no part in the emotional process of the body... or does it?

Looking at the emotional or hormonal abnormalities that take place in our bodies we call to mind the workings of the kidneys, the spleen, and the brain. These are the organs that so greatly alter and guide our thoughts from mild to fantastic.

Really, the only process the heart is known for is completing an almost endless cycle of moving blood. Heart to lungs to heart to body. Repeat.

But if the true nature of the heart is to endlessly give to the aid and life of its surroundings, would this not be the greater bodily example of love?

Just a thought.

~Erik

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