Heart Palpitations

Have you ever felt your heart stop beating? I have. And I don't mean the way that it does when you sneeze or when someone startles you. I mean when something scares you so badly that your heart seems to stop and weigh heavy in your chest. Or when you're so happy that your heart seems to abandon its usual occupation of pumping blood and instead leap out and dance around. Those are the emotions that make you feel alive. You have to laugh a little, cry a little, bleed a little...it reminds you of the sanctity of life and the pleasure of having it. I don't mean literal bleeding, but the emotional kind - the outpouring of emotions like a deluge, a current so strong it makes you wonder how you ever held it back before. That is what it is to truly live.