Even after all this time, even after everything … my heart can still skip a beat. Isn’t it funny, too, how it actually feels like<\/i> your heart skips a beat? Like a little physical flutter of excitement – a pause, and then a speeding-up. The physiological response of emotion. Like “heartache<\/i>“. The heart actually<\/i> hurts when it is broken. This is not a revelation, by any means. Smarter people than yours truly have recognized that. I often wonder about it, though. I don’t wonder about it at 3:30 in the morning AS I’m pressing down on my chest, trying to ease the ache in my heart – an ache that feels REAL – the emotions are what is real, the experiential reality is what is actually going on – but still. The heart actually<\/i> hurts. What is that? The pain does seem to come from the region of the heart<\/i>, which is truly amazing, if you think about it. It’s just an organ. But so much emotion goes on in there. Pain and joy emanate from that area of the chest. Remarkable.<\/p>\n
And after all this time, after all the heartACHE, it is amazing to learn that the heart can still skip a beat. It hasn’t forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Even after all this time, even after everything … my heart can still skip a beat. Isn’t it funny, too, how it actually feels like your heart skips a beat? Like a little physical flutter of excitement – a pause, … Continue reading