It's a well-known fact that skin is the largest human organ, followed by the liver. And it makes perfect sense, too. Skin is both our shield and our sole conection to everything outside ourselves. That contact wears us off, and that's precisely why our skin sheds and renews itself. Whilst the liver filters our blood, our life stream, cleansing it of all toxins and impurities that try to make their way to our hearts.
But is it, really, their target, the heart?
We'd have to stop to think about what constitutes a human being. What we are. What part's the most important, the one that makes us who we are, that dictates the way we think, move and react to external impulses?
The heart is responsible for pumping blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. And that's pretty much it. Collects blood, pumps it to the lungs, collects blood, again, this time from the lungs and pumps it, again, out to the body. Quite simple.
Not so simple is the human brain, which is actually the most complex organ in the human body. It regulates virtually all human activity. Involuntary or lower actions, such as the heart rate, are unconsciously governed by the brain. Most complex, mental that is, activity is consciously controlled, wait for it, by the brain.
The living brain is actually very soft, jelly-like, and deep red. Ring any bells?
The normal adult human brain typically weighs between 1 and 1.5 kg, whereas the mass of a healthy normal adult heart is 250-350 g, about three fourths the size of a clenched fist. I bet you thought it was bigger than that.
A heart's a teeny tiny little thing, really. We're drowned by its symbolism and methaforical use, thus confering it mystical and inaccurate capacities.
Plus, the heart's protected by, what? The rib cage. Seriously, ribs? Those uncontinuous fluffy things? What about the brain, huh? It's protected by a series of bone, three-layered membrane, and fluid. How about that? If your essence, your soul, was located in a physical part of your body, where would you put it? Behind bars or in a deep impenetrable cage?
Exactly.
Now, pick again.
PS: The fact that it took me about five times longer to draw the friggin' brain should count for something too.
4 comments:
Toma ya. Con dibujo y todo.Una clase de anatomia a lo bestia.
Ni idea. Estáis todas empolladas en
el cuerpo humano, eh?
Besos, wapa
Empollada no, ni idea de estas cosas. Pero me apetecía dibujarlos e inventé una excusa.
Besos
Interesante, hay que cambiar perspectivas.
Yo, desde que me enteré de que el sexo está en la cabeza, he dejado de concederle tanta importancia al corazón... (qué mal suena eso, ¿no? Ni que fuera un obseso...).
En cualquier caso, yo seguiré abogando por el páncreas como el centro vital del ser humano. Y punto.
Ya sabes lo que dicen, el tamaño no importa. Lo que importa es el peso. O eso tp?
Either way, haces bien. En el fondo no tiene tanta importancia. Pero en lo que no había reparado yo es en lo mono que tiene que ser en realidad, una coshita tan xikitita...
Qué acertado estuviste siempre con lo del páncreas... Tú si que saps, guapo. Tu si que saps.
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