“Follow
your heart” is the
translation for this famous novel written by Susanna Tamaro. I remember reading
it when I was almost 15 and I really enjoyed it. The book basically encouraged
a young girl to follow her heart. Not her heart in a passionate way as we may
confuse nowadays. It inspired to follow the truth of love, to reach a goal, to
show your feelings.
And this thought came to my mind because of an experience
we had last week with a pregnant mother. She came to the office for a follow-up
and it was during the sonogram that she started crying. At that point I
remembered this novel, exactly this quoted sentence: “Unshed tears leave a
deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it,
the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.” I knew that this mother
needed to cry. She was following her heart and probably not only hers.
But the
protagonist of this story is not Susanna Tamaro, neither a pregnant mother.
What I am trying to focus on is a really minuscule heart. Such small that it
can´t be observed with our limited sight. Such soft that it cannot be heard
with our limited ears. Such delicate that it can stop with any lash of hatred.
But such real, such valuable that makes one crying. I was there, observing the
screen. It was a small black spot of the size of a bean growing by seconds,
living each of those seconds and beating as a real heart that it was.
That mother
was crying observing how the heart of her baby was beating. It was amazing to
observe the sonogram because each beat produced the whole baby movement. And
the baby was only six weeks!! There I really observed the wisdom of nature and
the greatness of life. This courageous mother followed her heart, and not only
hers. She kept the life she had inside her womb, following her baby´s heart.
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