Hearts Will Never Be Practical…

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  This was meant as a Valentines Day story-but it is appropriate for all times and all places.   The Human Heart is a fickle thing-at best. One of the most prevalent themes of all of literature and religion, is the notion of the human heart as the reservoir of love and emotion. *Hearts will never be practical- unless they are made unbreakable..

The physical organ itself is not that beautiful, but it’s certainly a spectacular marvel and piece of machinery which maintains our very lives. Pumping oxygen and blood, it sustains us as much as the emotional heart. A fleeting scene comes to mind from a famous movie, where a tin man laments the fact that the woodsmen forgot to give him a heart, but that’s for later in this short story.

Early philosophers and theologians actually believed that the soul and the mind resided in the brain’s pituitary gland, but the heart seemed to win the coveted place of lovers, lyricists and philosophers.

The concepts of a broken heart, an open hear or even a cold heart, all seem to resonate better than that of just a busted pituitary gland.

Especially at this time of year, the illustrious heart seems a bit impertinent or insecure of its own nature . At times it seems even too small, yet consider the Heart’s resilient ability to eventually grow in size and love to the people of Dr Seuss’ Whoville, from a

previously well known small-hearted Grinch.

For all its grandeur and purpose “the heart” remains a lonely hunter, and at times quite fickle.  Its doesn’t know itself often and it’s not the most useful thing to possess when it’s open, vulnerable, or busted.

Yet Love and Romantic Hope remain alive, especially at this season of the year.

So to all the lovers of the world, the whimsical writers and the undying dreamers, heed the wisdom’s in the words of the Wizard of Oz, to the tin man.

“Hearts will never be Practical, until they are made unbreakable. “And remember my tin plated friend, a heart is not judged by how much YOU love, as by how much you are loved by others….”