What Does It Mean To Hold A Heart in Your Hands

What does it mean to hold a heart in your hands??  The greatest honor, nay the highest, most powerful kind of respect you can show someone is too trust them with the most vulnerable part of your being.... Your heart (the essence of your being, the moral fiber that keeps you intact)  You can take somebody's body by force but the heart must be and Can only be freely as a gift, a kind of “love offering” to whoever or whatever you cherish....For the purpose of this discussion, I will be talking about what happens when a person, not a thing holds your heart. Whomever has your heart can do whatever the hell they want with it, which is why such a practice is so daring and even dangerous.... The holder of your heart can cherish and hold it for the immeasurable treasure it is, or they can play and toy with it like a cheap dollar store toy, using it to accomplish their own shallow, selfish goals at your expense, discarding it (and you) when it is broken, or when they no longer have a use for it/ want it..... So why do we as humans as a whole want so bad to have someone hold our hearts, and to hold someone else's in return?? Why are we so stupid as to take part in a practice that we know has a good chance of leading us to heartbreak, to the greatest mental pain and anguish that we can experience on this side of the earth? Why do we trust someone we know will most likely hurt us? The reason for this seemingly stupid, grossly impulsive decision is that we as a human species are risk takers, we will risk it all for the great reward, forsaking the treasures we already have.... When it comes to relationships, trusting a person with your heart has great risks, but can have even greater rewards.....  You see, a loving, committed relationship between 2 people brings the most immense pleasure ever experienced... It is hard work yes, but the feeling of having someone who knows you, your flaws, your past, the side of you that you hide, and does not love you in spite of your flaws, but because of them..... The feeling of having someone you don't have to lie to, that you can love unashamedly.... Someone you can trust, love and ultimately be open with. To trust is to love, and to love is to live….  Love is beautiful, love is trustworthy, and love is divine. I want to end this brief diatribe, with 2 quotes: One from the Bible, and another from a Russian composer named Igor Stravinsky:   If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.  If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.  Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13: 1-8     Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? –Igor Stravinsky

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