Quintessential Voyage: Explanations of the Heart

Thursday Thought
6/23/2016

Love works in an interesting way... In my head you find someone you like someone you enjoy spending time with and who you get along with, a person who causes minimal pain. This individual earns trust and affection, in time (dependant on the owner) the owner of a heart will decide to give them a piece of their own heart. This act of LOVE is great, if it is reciprocated, we often want to see a trade of heart pieces and beautiful endings.
Heartbreak happens when this person leaves you while keeping your piece, this is often a problem the owner puts on themselves. In other words, the person may offer the individual their heart back to them and the original owner either will not accept it or refuses to end the deal. Imagine the situation of a break-up like a reposession, a person takes their heartpiece back and the new "owner" fights to keep it, in the end the person initiating a break-up gets to keep the heart and theirs. There are those mutual break-ups but the blood on your hands from a return exchange never seems to wash off.

Look back at your first love, you remember it? How awesome did it make you feel? How invested were you in that person? How much time did you spend with them? See where i'm going with this is when you're young (or new to love), you're willing to spend more and give them more than probably what they deserve.

Refer back to the point above, you gave this person a piece of your heart, in a percentage how much do you think you gave them? How much did you give that next person you fell in love with? Who got more? Chances are you probably have given that first person the most, the second even less, and each person after that you were more and more reluctant to invest and gift pieces of your heart. If you're married and you truly believe this is your life partner, the person you're going to be happy with forever, then I bet you that when you and them were dating you gave them more and more of your heart until eventually it was the most anyone's ever received and the best way you've invested it.

The heart is like an eternal flame. Pause for dramatic effect, cue your eye roll. I know it's cliche but think about this... You are working on something and plugging away, if you're truly passionate about it you are able to continue at it for days and weeks without wavering. I imagine the heart is a fire that burns to signal things like passion, love, happiness, etc. The flames change color. Those who are close to you can see it and interpret it and understand it. In order for somebody to get close to the flame, there are layers (like an onion, not a cake). Somebody has to get past each one into the inner rings.

There's an issue nowadays with investing and spending. Not just for cash money, but also for emotional spending. We are often spending more than we have and thus creating a loss in terms of return of investment. Between friends, family, and lovers/partners/significant others... Allocating the funds of emotional energy can be difficult and tough to spend adequately. You need to find people who will spend their energy with you, and thus creating a return of investment for you and a beneficial relationship for you both.
Take a minute, imagine you're at the beach as a kid, building a sand castle with your toys. Now this stranger kid comes in to help you build this sand castle, they may or may not understand the sand castle you want to build but they're helping you by deterring the water, collecting piles of good sand, or even beautifying the structure. This other person is that lover/significant other that assists you in achieving your goals, they enable you and help you to achieve your goals even though my may not fully understand, they want the best for you. If you're a good partner, you will do the same for them when they start to build their sand castle.

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