Every human is unique, and how we choose to live our lives is different. In the short essay Joyas Voladoras, we read about humming birds, blue whales, and humans. They may be different in size, but all have something in common.
When we read the paragraph about the hummingbird we learn that when "they rest they come close to death…" Since they are constatntly moving at sixty miles an hour and collect nectar from a thousand flowers a day, they are never relaxing, and when they do they're close to death. The hummingbirds heart sounds like "hammering faster then we could clearly hear if we pressed our elephantine ears to their infinitesimal chests." However, the blue whale is way bigger, and moves much slower. Their hearts are much larger in size than the hummingbird, and "the largest hearts in the world generally travel in pairs…"
Brian Doyle says "so much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the end- not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart." It's as if the author is trying to break down the brick wall of the readers heart with such descriptive details.
Humans, mammals and birds all have the same heart with four chambers, we have similar structure of our hearts, but we choose to use them differently. In short, we're not that different, maybe in size and where we live but were all live on the same planet. Some people choose to be like a hummingbird, constantly over working and letting life pass them by, or they live like a blue whale who takes their time, and really enjoys life.
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