Who You Are

In life, many people judge us for who we are, whether it is physically or our personality.

However, being who we are is the right thing to do. Each person has their own personality,

different from each other in their own way. No one is an exact copy of others, even identical

twins are not that identical after all, and it is immutable. It is our heart and brain that created

our own character. We always use our head to think, to choose, to decide what we want to do

and what path should we take. Meanwhile, how about our heart? Can we think with our

heart? Actually, yes we can. A person who has done a heart transplant will change in terms of

how they think, their emotions and memories.

The way we think of things will change after doing heart transplant. There are numerous case

studies of heart donation recipients who have experiences these scarce changes. For instance,

a woman named Claire Silvia, from Boston, had a heart transplant. After the heart transplant,

she was convinced that she was living with the presence of another within her. Not only that,

she also added that her taste and preferences for foods and drinks also change, even her own

handwriting, she, herself was astounded by it. Looking throughout majority of human history,

the brain was not a place to locate their thoughts and emotions. The area where our thoughts

lay is centred in our heart. In simple, when we replace our heart by other people's heart, the

way we think will also change.

Emotions are feelings that we feel in our heart, therefore, if we switch our heart into others'

heart, how we react or the emotions that we feel to certain conditions will change, too.

According to Gary Schwartz, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale university,

and Professor Paul Pearsall, a cardio neurologist from the University of Honolulu and the

author of 'The Heart's Code', the heart learns and remembers. Any system that has feedback

can learn. The heart itself and the brain have dynamic feedback, both through bloodstream

and neurons. In brief, our emotions change as our heart changes, too. In short, our emotions

will change after our heart was substituted.

Lastly, if we do heart transplant, the memories within our heart will also change. Dr. Andrew

Armour, a neurologist, discovered a small, complex neurons network in the heart which is

dubbed 'the little brain in the heart'. These neurons are capable of both short and long term

memory. In fact, the ability that hearts can be transplanted shows that there is a long-term

memory stored in the heart for its rhythms, which enabling the heart to remember how to

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beat, which prove that heart stores memories. So, memories are also affected after heart

transplant other than our thoughts and emotions.

In the end, it is true that heart transplant affect the thoughts, emotions, and memories of the

recipient. Heart becomes the centre of each of us, the genesis of our personality, of who we

are. Listen to you're heart, trust it, and believe in it, then you will know who you are.

Reference

http://darrenlb.wordpress.com/2006/11/28/can-your-heart-think/

Underlined : Appositives

Italic : Infinitives

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