From primary school, what is now universally categorised as the heart-shape, used to be called love. And when we were being taught organs in the body and I asked the question (or maybe someone else did in class cannot remember) if the human heart was really heart-shaped. Well if you have seen the diagram of the human heart or lucky enough to see the real one, you may see it takes imagination to make out the well known heart-shape. But is love heart-shaped?
Well, I'd say yes. But love is not material. It is untouchable. It is an abstract noun. You can only feel it. It is not an object we can see, so how on earth can I say it is heart shaped? :o
Lets look at the components of a heart-shape. Let's divide into two, and we have this erm bendy curve that turns into a slanting curve. That shape seems to have a beginning and an end. You pour something into it and it comes out the other end. It has an up and a down, and the shape looks weird, empty, meaningless, purposeless, incomplete, probably looks like something - a French Curve that is - someone like me hates because it reminds them of Technical Drawing class.
Then we draw another shape, that reflects the other, and join it together perfectly and we have a shape. It has no beginning or end. If something was poured inside, it would fill the two, and that would make the shape grow to allow more. It looks like something you can recognise and hopefully love. It has a down with very little space but the top with larger space, this shape seems to spread out, looks like it just wants to grow and bloom.
I think the second shape is how love is. It is endless and it's beginning cannot be traced back. It just wants to grow and multiply. It needs to be expressed in a relationship to be complete, starting first with oneself then another and it is complete. It cannot be expressed without having started with oneself.
Yes, I think love is heart-shaped.