From The Heart

Charles W. Chestnut once said, ~The workings of the human heart are the profoundest, mystery of the universe. One moment, they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.~ In some aspects, every person 's heart has eyes, though it can't visually see, touch, or feel what is in front of it. If you think about it, our hearts can be considered a separate being that one can't control sometimes because you never really know how greatly it will be affected. From a certain standpoint, the human heart is the most fragile thing a person has inside them because it can take only one small crack to have one's heart break into so many pieces.

Every person has experienced heartbreak, whether it be good or bad, it was a heartbreak nonetheless. The human heart is the most valuable commodity a person can share with another and the love that two people share is the greatest investment both can give one another as well. Yet, people sometimes lock their hearts away in a proverbial vault so he or she won't be able to be hurt again. It's basically to protect themselves from the dangers of giving your heart to someone else who may eventually stomp on and/or put it in a blender so to speak. You can't protect your heart forever, because there will be that one person who will have the right combination to open up one's personal vault.

Being wounded straight in one's heart can bring any person to his or her knees. It can take days, weeks, months, years, or even decades for one's one heart to fully heal depending on how that one person truly touched your heart. Inevitably, a person heart will be touched again, but he or she will be cautious because one doesn't want to get too attached and suffer the same wounds again. Wounds that oftentimes bring up past pain, anger, bitterness, sadness, and possibly even happiness. With all wounds, they heal but it leaves scars which be a constant reminder of how falling in and out of love can be like a battle, a battle that is truly worth fighting for.

In any case, the eyes our heart can actually see who our eyes sometimes can't visually see. We can be somewhat blind to what is standing right in front of us because we can get too distracted of that one person who is seemingly causing you to go blind. It merely takes a slap in the back of the head from one's own heart to wake up and open our eyes to see what we are missing out on. Our hearts can truly see that one true love that been so elusive to may of us who constantly wonder when our time. It's that one person that binds the ultimate vision when that other person's heart is staring right back at you. It's a stare that feels so familiar and feels absolutely comfortable.

In a romantic/sappy kind of way, that one person that one will meet or already has met will be or is the key to unlocking one's own heart. A poem by Rob Labrecque gives a best description of how one person is the key to unlocking a whole new world, and it's entitled A Key To My Heart:

I had once lost a key
a key that locked my heart
I thought the key was gone
for good but now I know where it is
The key to my heart is right in your hand
That is why I love you so
I never want to let you go
You had the key and now
I love you and you love me
and now we are happy


Inevitably, two hearts that are traveling in different directions, yet are searching for the same thing, will see each other. In the end true happiness will be found and all he or she needs to do is to just speak from the heart.