A matter of heart

The anatomist will tell you a heart is a chambered muscular organ in vertebrates that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system. Invertebrates too have a similar contraption to do the same job for them. We all know that it is a much simplistic way to define a heart…moreover these anatomists and those of their ilk have no heart anyway…You may ask why. Are they not vertebrates though some of them at times may behave like an invertebrate? You are right to suppose an anatomist should have a muscular organ but wrong to expect that all of them to have a heart! Now, does that make sense?

The best way to prevent heart conditions is not to own one! “Hey how is that possible?” you may ask. Tell me how many times have you given away your heart while in your teens? Hold it! Cross your heart before you answer. The few girls in NDA during our times would have owned many hearts at one time…that also explains why cadets in our days did not get heart conditions even under much physical and in some cases mental duress. But always give your heart to someone who will take care of it. That is something we all realize emerging out of the teens.

There is a flip side to giving away your heart. When you do not have a heart you don’t have a heart. You then tend to become less compassionate. Everyone will tell you after every move by you “have a heart”. The easy way out of this one is to learn to always behave as if you ‘have a heart’ although you do not have a heart. This will help you in certain other circumstances also.

Take for instance when you have put your heart and soul into a game of golf – it has to be done though it does not matter where you finally put your golf ball. And of course on the nineteenth hole you can’t brag about the putt on the fifth and how close to your heart was that one, nor can you wear you heart on your sleeve when you rue the missed putt on the eighteenth. Mind you, you can’t afford to do any of these in a half hearted manner; after all your game of golf is very close to your heart.

I say this from the bottom of my heart, if you learn to do all these without a heart or with your heart in the right place (with somebody else), in my heart of hearts I feel giving away your heart saves a lot of trouble with cholesterol, BP et al.

Then and then…no yoga…no by pass…no ~graphy…you can live the rest of your life to your heart’s content!!!