Law of Inertía

What controls a person? Is it really the mind .... or is he merely a product of emotions? I feel that there's only so much one can do to fend off unwanted experiences, uncomfortable reactions, hidden agendas, hidden desires, so much so that a person becomes demented in trying to keep everything underneath the skin. As the saying goes, "still waters run deep". To whoever said this, he/she must have been tormented with uncomfortable feelings.

As the little tv commercial kid says, "The heart is a hollow muscular organ located between the lungs ... etc.," as the camera moves about her making her look like she's rotating about an axis on a small chair. It is true. The heart is a hollow muscular organ. But it's function to humans goes beyond keeping life. It connotes love, as if blood itself is the human experience that brings life to love, that brings oxygen to the heart and the rest of the body and keeps it alive.

The size of a fist, your heart is involuntary. It runs on its own, undisturbed with its own inertia, it's own set of rules. All the events that take place in a single beat are run by a self-perpetuated pacemaker. It's autonomic. Hence, even if one wills it to stop beating, it will not. It will keep beating till you're too old to keep up or too drugged and delirious to notice the difference.

Funny how the brain controls everything in our bodies, but once the heart stops, everything else follows. Everything dies with it.