Thursday, July 1, 2010

Love Vs Heart

              The word "love" automatically brings to one's mind the heart symbol. Have you ever wondered why should they both be linked in any way? And first of all, why should the heart actually get such a symbol? Heart is a part of the human body. It performs the most important function of supplying the oxygenated blood to all parts of the body. But it doesnt perform any function related to analysis of thoughts or production of the so called "hormones". All conceptual beliefs are just result of human evolution. This being the case, why did our ancestors use heart shape for indicating love? As we are the modern practicalist, let us do the logical linking. Our brain is the one which processes our thoughts and categorizes them. So officially we are supposed to link "love" with "brain". Imagine that in order to show a love struck person's status "an arrow passing through brain" is used. Gives an impression of "zombies having their love for brain of a human as lunch", doesnt it? Think its best to leave things as they are..

6 comments:

  1. Perhaps, the heart beats fast or slow or stops (or expresses itself in a way to distinguish from other feelings), when u meet some one u love, hence become the symbol of it. Nice background theme. Being so vetti huh? ;-)

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  2. @lakshya: Thanks for validating my thought.. :)

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