Heart and Mind Closed for business.

Do you have any answers for any one of them?

This looks funny and familiar, who is it? please explain the joke for me.

That's quite funny Twirlip.

Do you think I should have managed the thread simpler?

interesting you'd bring this up

the other day i was listening to a BBC podcast about crime analysis, one of the criminologists was saying how good it was to solve a crime and bring closure to a family, one example he used was identifying a body that had been missing for almost 40 years

i found the discussion odd, after 40 years you would probably expect that the missing person was dead, but with no proof you could live in hope that maybe they just left to live a different life, i'd rather die thinking the latter than have the confirmation after all those years that they were dead

most people have minds that are closed to some subjects and not others, but the problem is that in order to keep the door locked on certain rooms, others end up also having to be locked so as not to allow access, and in a matter of time the mind gets smaller and smaller while the person who owns it doesnt even realize it is happening.

the heart on the other hand usually closes after being hurt...and if there is such a thing as healing for the heart, it tends to remain closed at least partially. the more the hurt, the more it closes, until it becomes like a dead thing, nothing more than a machine to pump blood.

both are survival mechanisms i believe...the mind is the upper layer of the heart really, they are in the same region of humanity. to open one means the other also becomes liable to attack; they have to protect each other's back.

people seldom consciously close their minds, but often their hearts.

i am sure my mind is still closed here and there...

most people have minds that are closed to some subjects and not others, but the problem is that in order to keep the door locked on certain rooms, others end up also having to be locked so as not to allow access, and in a matter of time the mind gets smaller and smaller while the person who owns it doesnt even realize it is happening.

the heart on the other hand usually closes after being hurt...and if there is such a thing as healing for the heart, it tends to remain closed at least partially. the more the hurt, the more it closes, until it becomes like a dead thing, nothing more than a machine to pump blood.

both are survival mechanisms i believe...the mind is the upper layer of the heart really, they are in the same region of humanity. to open one means the other also becomes liable to attack; they have to protect each other's back.

people seldom consciously close their minds, but often their hearts.

i am sure my mind is still closed here and there, but i am working on it. the heart too is still closed here and there, but harder to open up after so long.

i remember when my mother was dying of cancer...i left my job and home and stayed with her for three months. she was particularly cruel to me then, but i did what i felt was right. i had no feeling for her for centuries already...but there was one moment, when i had to help her get out of the wheel chair and back into bed, (my brothers were not around at that moment though we were all three along with her boy friend co-caretakers) when i held her in my arms, my heart almost melted. but it didnt last long enough. it was bad for me, hardly mattered to her...it will always be my handicap.