Romantic expression has different forms. Its symbolic form being the safest of all forms. It is simple and open and clear and gets the message through. To fulfill this expression we offer our most precious of entities, our source of life. We offer our heart and here is where I discuss my thesis.
On asking a medical doctor how a heart looks like, she will describe something which looks like the figure below.
The Heart
This is definitely not what we present as the cocoon of our expressions which, on acceptance, will sprout into the joy and happiness we promise to offer. What we tend to display looks more like what is shown below. But have you ever wondered how this heart and this heart are one of the same thing? I have.
According to my understanding, the Greeks are responsible. I am not referring to the current euro crisis but to the old Greeks who, too, made a great impact. Like any other fact, this too has mythical roots. The Greeks call him Eros but his Roman counterpart, Cupid, tends to be more famous. According to the Romans, Cupid, sometimes shown blindfolded, is the god of love who is firing arrows at all ranges, not at all caring or bothering where they fall, very much like some war mongering leaders we know. But unlike them, Cupid wants people to like each other, yet again, to fall in love.
As shown in the photo, the projectile is an arrow fired from a bow aimed at a random heart. Upon impact, the victim, the poor victim, sans sense of reality falls into the illusion of desire and the delusion of being desired. We label this state of existence/non-existence as falling in love. Whenever is falling a pleasant thing to happen?
The arrow head is where the heart comes from. It is this striking of the two hearts that gives rise to this feeling which makes a fool out of a wise. The actual heart is so damaged by the impact that we take out the arrow, break off the arrow head and try to explain to the other what the problem is by presenting the arrow head as evidence.
