COMPLEXITY AND THE BEAUTY..

The first time I held my first heart, in my bare hands, was at the age of 19 years in the anatomical dissection hall. It was a female heart preserved in formalin and felt hard as a rubber and heavy as something really uncommon for it's size. It was a terrible feeling initially, may be for the strong odour of formalin that made it difficult to even breathe. 

The walls of the heart were out of distinct understanding and all the three layers seemed difficult as my eyes gazed wide open and blinked. We were told that there are four chambers to receive and send out blood via veins and arteries, and the right side of the heart theoretically maintained circulation to the nearby lungs while the left side of the heart pumped blood all the way to the extremities of the body. Obvious question was which side is right and which one is the wrong. The only fascination I had in that heart were the very cordial "valves" because by the time I accepted that I am holding somebody's heart, the atrioventricular and semilunar valves were evaluated on understanding. I so loved the valves for they prevent blood from flowing backwards or regurgitating back into the heart following a system of one-way. On imagination, if the emotions existed that way, so many of us could avoid those relapsing heartaches. 

Then there was this fragile male brain that I saw in the jar which inevitably takes more than three years to solidify in texture for it to be held as a structure like the female's heart. On neural connection, there seems a great deal in nervous system’s capacity to injure the heart. Neurocardiology supposedly has many dimensions which can be conceptualized as divided into 3 major categories: the heart’s effects on the brain, the brain’s effects on the heart and neurocardiac syndromes (like Friedreich disease). Friedreich Disease has nothing to do with "Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche" who is a German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer. Though he surely signified saying, "One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

The complexity here lay in the brain and the beauty in the heart..

The beauty here lay in the heart and the the complexity in the brain..

(This is a complexity for non-medics and beauty for the medics)

Regards and respect,

Dr. Aarohi Mekvan