Personal Drive: Life's Motor

What is the motor of life?

Physically, it is the heart, which literally pumps blood, a bit more than once per second. At that rate, blood circulates the body, carrying with it oxygen, nourishment, wast or whatever happen to be therein. Brain cells die off when blood supply is blocked off. Such is what happens in strokes (ischemic type). When the heart stops, the life stops.

As interesting as it may be, beyond medical awareness, the heart as the motor of life carries essentially no morals for one to tap into.

Life is more than the somatic body. There is the mind, and more abstractly, the spirit, or the soul.

Why do some people seem to be more pumped up than others?

It is hormones, one may say, or as the Greek word ὁρμή from which the word hormone is derived means, impetus. Impetus can be due to fear, inspiration, determination, or any number of things, things that the mind understands or the instinct or the soul calls for, and that drive one into action. In short, it is personal drive.

The story described in the next post inspired me to the above thought. I call it Personal-Drive-as-the-Motor-of-Life Story, or Personal Drive Story for short.

I will add more of such stories as time goes by. I encourage you the reader to do the same.