x it's all in a name...
i was sitting in kenisiology class today listening to my teacher talk about the heart, and how as you get older it gets stressed because its been beating for all those years. do you know how many times the average heart beats in a year? 31,536,000 times. now think of that over the course of a life time. thats alot of beats. when you think about it its hard to believe that little muscle thats the size of your fist can keep on pumping for a hundred years isnt it? and thats just an average person, thats not an athlete, or a smoker, or anyone special. thats just an average number some scientist decided on. see i thought that was pretty impressive, but then i got thinking...what about the people with broken hearts? what about those people who's hearts hurt so much they cant even get out of bed in the morning? it's like when i sit in that class it makes it seem like your heart is just a muscle, and its only job is to pump blood to your body. and sure thats a big job...but if thats all it does, and if it keeps on beating for all those hundred years without stopping...then why do we say that we have a broken heart? really a broken heart would be when you have a heart attack, or an arthymia. not when someone walks out of your life and you feel this big gaping hole. thats not really a broken heart...but it is definatly something...i'm just not sure what....