Body, Mind and Soul

personify me..

 

 

 

The organs were musing as to who was the most important.  Brain spoke first, as always, ‘I am definitely the most important organ. I control everything in here; I am literally the brains behind this outfit’.

Heart smiled ‘Brain, you may be the ‘co-ordinator’ but without me nothing would work.  I keep the blood pumping around the body and if I stop, so do you!’

 Heart felt satisfied that the argument was settled until Skin piped up ‘I think you will both find that without me holding things all together then you wouldn’t be able to function, you would be all over the place, literally!’ 

The brain and heart shifted uneasily as the skin had a point.  They had kind of over looked that.  Lungs now felt that if skin could put his two pence worth in, then so could  he ‘I keep you all alive with the oxygen, you so need, without me, you would all stop working, everything would die’.

Pancreas butted in at this point ‘I have no idea what I do but I must be here for a reason…’ he trailed off as all the organs glared at him.

 

Listening to all this pomp and circumstance, Mind that normally didn’t join in these kind of discussions, decided he was going to put things in perspective ‘You’re all important, don’t you see, no one here is anything without the other.’

 Brain jumped in ‘who asked for your opinion Mind, your not even a thing, you’re a concept…conscious twaddle’

The mind smiled ‘yes brain, I am not of any form that you can see, but without me, you would not have a purpose.  You would just exist, without even knowing that you exist.  I think....’ 

Brain interrupted again ‘NO I THINK....’ he shouted.

‘Oh do shut up Brain!’ Heart said cuttingly.  ‘You don’t think! You just send electrical impulses around the body, telling it what to do.’ She smiled at the Mind and told him to continue.

‘Thank you Heart, as I was saying, I think. That is what makes us aware of our being’.

Now the soul who was listening to all the commotion and smiling to himself, felt it was time to give everyone some food for thought.‘I would like to add something, Mind, if you don’t mind.’

 Mind laughed, ‘pardoning the pun, of course not Soul, be my guest’.

 

Maybe we are all missing the point here; every one of us is linked.  Imagine we meet someone we love and kiss them.  We get excited, have a rush of excitement, we feel love.   I experience the feeling, Mind makes sense of that as an individual, Brain interprets the signals, Heart beats faster, Skin perspires and Lungs take a deep breath, without you all working together as one, this could never be possible.  We have been given this enviable gift of life, to share as one.  That my friends is what makes us, binds us and defines us’

 

All the organs nodded in agreement as Soul had put their petty argument into perspective’

Finally a little voice piped up, it was pancreas ‘You didn’t include me?’

Soul smiled ‘Pancreas, I am not sure what you do but I know that if you are here, it is for a purpose and you are just as important’

The pancreas beamed ‘thank you Soul’.