Aside from it's role in supporting life, the heart is more commonly tied to anything and everything related to love and romance.
When we truly love someone, we say things like 'She has my heart' or 'He makes my heart skip beat'. When we're kids we give out paper heart valentines and draw hearts that say "I love Robert" or "Jayden & Allison" in the middle. The heart, in many cases, is used a universal symbol for love. It's largely due to the fact that ancient civilizations and philosophers attributed all emotions and reasoning to the heart organ. Everything you thought or felt or did was believed to be controlled by the heart. But I won't go into any of that history here.
What is important is that somewhere along the way the heart was labeled as the love organ. Romance between two people is probably one of the most inexplicable occurences known to man. Endless novels, plays, poems & songs have been written about love. From Shakespeare to Nicholas Sparks, Marvin Gaye to
*baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah i'm sleepy & i dont feel like writing the rest of this right now i'm just going to post this with the caveat that i will finish this later. dont you judge me*
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