Long ago, while reading a review of a book, I found the author saying that ‘heart’ is a mere poetic technique. I agreed at once and I shall continue to do so. But then I was also aware that it was me too who also says “my heart says…”. I understand this is just a small expression of emotions and it is actually the part of our brain that controls our emotions that says this. Being practical makes us aware of the way our emotions are controlled by our mind and being conscious helps us control our emotions.
Sometimes we are into such great depths of our unpractical emotions that we began to feel our ‘heart’ speaking out. This is all but a simple justification of the fact that even emotions ask for practicality. The ‘why?’ asked by our heart may not necessary be the ‘why?’ we want it to ask us. It may be asking us why we are into such a state and why we are not conscious of the present realities and also the ones that seem obvious in the future.
Now this is where poets, or people who like to be poets, try to capitalize. This subject looks always interesting to the reader and if the ‘poet’ does happen to have some talent by chance, he succeeds in writing stanzas that please the said readers.
When our brain has to think more than the usual or faster than the usual, it needs more blood for energy, and it makes our heart beat faster. It sometimes so happens that though we do not want to think much, our brain knows that a particular situation asks for consciousness and subsequent thinking, and it makes the heart beat faster so that should the person decide to be rational and think, he shouldn’t find any difficulty in doing so. The brain here is asking us to think. That is, I feel, the only reason our heart beats faster even when we have not done any physical exercise. And I suppose all this to be facts and not theories.
Sustained rational thinking realizes us to the understanding that we, by all means and complexities, belong to ourselves. Though some other person may posses us implicitly, we still are an eternal possession of our own being and no one can change that. No person can own, or proclaim to be owned by, any other person as long as he is in full control of his mindset and physical life. Any further ‘ownership’ is self-contemn and that is a sin. It is an end to a person inflicted upon him by himself. We only belong to God and by His exalted wish, we belong to ourselves partially.
Let us not besiege our dignity with senseless emotions. We often do this when we decide to fall for people who too may think that this is alright. We need to realize that we should stand for people rather than falling for ourselves. Who would love or respect a fallen man? The wood of a fallen tree is useful only as firewood, but a live tree is very helpful to the mankind in many ways.
When we attempt to recreate or fake reality, it ceases to be reality anymore. Living in the present is an affirmation of a past reality that has passed away and an assertion of the future which is a more important and bigger reality.
