What Makes the Love Heart a Wonderful Symbol?
The heart is a universal symbol of love. It represents everything
that depicts peace and unity between couples or togetherness between two
parties. The love heart is indeed one of the most common icons in the
world that means a single thing for others and means a lot to millions.
Why has it become a powerful and meaningful emblem? This is mainly
because it is generally associated with both emotional and spiritual
feelings. It is also encrypted in the minds of many that a love heart’s
content are divine thus making it a very popular symbolism.
 Love is a
wonderful feeling and what better way to express it than from your
heart. For this reason, many objects such as decors, giveaways,
jewelries, shirt prints, and tattoos are designed in the shape of a
heart. These objects become even more popular during Valentine’s Day,
weddings, and anniversaries. The love heart is indeed a wonderful symbol
because it looks simple yet entails a lot of powerful meanings. The
great thing about using the love heart as a sign is that it can
immediately deliver a single message. Before and even today, the love
heart is known to be the seat of the human mind. It was also believed to
refer to emotional, moral, spiritual, and intellectual core of man. As
the symbol became universal it has been continuously used as something
that poetically refers to the soul. Many might not know this but the
love heart has already been used as a common symbol since the 7th
century BC in Cyrene. It was still colored red and is drawn in a
stylized shaped which is actually not depicting a human heart.
 Another reason why the love heart is a wonderful symbol is that it
poses many controversies. The name of the symbol itself is a big deal to
many because it does not even depict an organ that pumps blood which is
the heart. Others claim it to be an ironic symbol because it sort of
represents the buttocks, pubic mound, and even the vulva. History also
notes that the love heart originated from the shape of a silphium
plant’s seed which is an herbal contraceptive. Whatever people view it,
the heart is still an ancient symbol that signifies a soul filled with
love. The evolution of the love heart has become phenomenal. The icon
revolutionized the world from fashion to religion. In fashion, love
hearts have been used as stylish prints in underwear, shirts, jeans, and
even hats. The shape is also used as jewelry designs. On the other hand,
it is used as a religious symbol as in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the
Immaculate heart of Mary. However, besides the classical definition of
the symbol which is love, it can also mean sadness, hatred, or pain. The
broken love heart and the black heart are common representations of
broken or sad relationships. Regardless of what a person think a love
heart means, it is still widely considered as a wonderful symbol because
of the variety of things it depicts.
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