Heartbroken

I don’t know why when people get “heartbroken” they call it heartbroken. Our hearts are organs that pump blood, and in no way have any affiliation to our emotional feelings. When you love someone, or have very strong feelings for them, those sparks of interest come from your brain. With that being said, it is physically impossible to say that when someone who means everything to you, leaves you, that you are heartbroken.

Move your fingers around. Now wiggle your toes a bit. If you didn’t have a heart, you wouldn’t be able to do those things. Our hearts pump blood to every part of our bodies, which in return lets them work. They don’t control our emotions. Now sing the ABC’s. Or at least say your name, maybe even get up and take a few steps. These things would be impossible to do without our brains. The brain controls everything in our bodies. It tells us when to do things, and how to do them. It tells us what to say, what to move, even what to think. When we fall in love with somebody, we feel it emotionally and mentally, we feel it in our brains, not our hearts.

Saying you have a broken heart when somebody leaves you would be incorrect. You love people with your brain, so then you would have a broken brain..right? No. When you emotionally lose something, nothing in fact is breaking. You are losing the presence of something in your life, and the emotions that came along with that thing, but nothing is physically breaking. You feel sad when something leaves you that you had strong feelings for, but that is it. Your brain is missing those feelings or actions that were in place when that object was still in your life, but that is all.

Society has established that the heart that runs inside us is the same shape and has the same meaning as the one that people use to symbolize love. When you fall in love with someone, you are falling in love with their personality, which is generated from their brain. Same goes with breakups, or losing a loved one. You are not heartbroken. In fact, those emotions have nothing to do with your heart. Saying that you have a broken heart is not true; in reality, you just have a brain that is missing someone special.