How then does one Touch the Hearts of Many?
Now you can tug at one's heartstrings. Anatomically speaking, this can refer to the Chordae Tendineae which,
"are tendons linking the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve in the right ventricle and the mitral valve in the left ventricle. As the papillary muscles contract and relax, the chordae tendineae transmit the resulting increase and decrease in tension to the respective valves, causing them to open and close. The structurally string-like appearance of the chordae tendineae has led to their being called "heart strings."But of course, damage to these tendons should be limited to those with years of training and expertise.
News reporting and movies often invest great effort, time, and money to present a story that will tug on one's heartstrings. Through literary imagery and emotion inducing orchestrations, Hollywood produces movies that induce emotional expressions of happiness and joy and tears and sorrow. Manipulative or not, the results are often genuine and real to the viewer.
All that said, touching anyone's heart starts with caring for someone or many someones, beyond the obvious "how are you?" It involves investing a portion of yourself in others, especially when it's not convenient to do so. It requires having embracing a passion for lifting the downtrodden and bringing joy into a world where negativity and depravity often scream loudest. In essence I think it really means loving someone even when they make it hard to be loved - loving the unlovable. Touching the hearts of many, or even one, should be a positive and permanent experience.
I guess then a cardiac surgeon can both emotionally touch your heart and literally pull your heart strings.
