Twisted Sunshine, Relaunched

          Thanks to Rey about bringing up his own idea of love when he posted his blog on his own Friendster page. Promil kid… I like that bit, haha! Here’s the link to his entry:

          http://weezing1982.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/

          The title of this blog entry presents a rather negative irony. If there is "love", then why does the "fight" between the the mind and the heart continue?

          "In the left corner, weighing 3.09 p-p-pounds, powerful in controlling the body’s overall functions is The Brain!" I hear the hollers and clapping in between my ears.

          "In the right corner, weighing .66 p-p-pounds, powerful in delivering blood throughout the body is The Heart!" I can feel my chest thumping with the idea.

          "Let’s get ready to rumble!" Wait, this scene playing in my mind is cartoon-ish and plainly stupid, isn’t it?

          There are endless debates on whether the brain is more important to the body than the heart. When there is brain death, does the heart automatically stop? When there is heart attack, does the brain compensate? Let’s leave this dispute to the medical experts.

          The fight even extends to love. Does the brain control it, or is it the heart that does?

          It is pop science to say that it’s all in the mind. True enough, as love and all other emotions are controlled by the brain. As Rey opined on his blog post, "The heart is just a specialized muscle in your body responsible for pumping blood."

          When he quoted, "So where does the heart actually come into play when love a person is in love? The answer is none," this isn’t entirely true.

          The heart, though passively, does have a role in love - and all other emotions that the brain can manifest.

          An extreme emotion causes a virtual explosion of nuerochemicals very similar to adrenalin, sending shots of impulses to the brain. The brain, being triggered by the need to process the emotion, will have a high demand for oxygen that’s why the breathing becomes deeper and the heart beats faster. When the pre-frontal part of one’s brain functions in response to "love", that attraction makes a person actually feel his heart beat fast. This is why people tend to put their hands on their chest rather than on their temples when they feel a certain gush of emotion, and this is why poets and romantics refer to the heart as the source of love.

          As an end note, I’ve noticed a good contrast between my entry and Rey’s. One may notice, when I defended that the heart plays a role in love, I am technical and dry about it. And while he wrote that love is all in the brain, the overall tone of his entry is rather emotional. Fascinating.