The heart, either big or small, is the most vital organ in one’s body and in life. Living a calm life with the person you love is the most important goal in life. Hearts vary from the size of an infant’s fingernail to the size of a room. Almost every living organism has a heart that is unique to that organism only (Doyle).  It is one’s engine, lifeline, and ticket to success. One must take care of it both physically and spiritually. In Brian Doyle’s text, Joyas Voladores, there are many different instances in which this unspoken message is clear. 

When one gets lonely they start to grow cold “and if they are not soon warmed, if they do not soon find that which is sweet, their hearts grow cold, and they cease to be” (Doyle). Sometimes being alone is the worst thing someone can experience. Sometimes being alone is worse than dying. Being alone can drive someone to taking their own life. One needs to “find that which is sweet” and by that Doyle is referring to a spouse. Someone to confide in. Someone to be with when all else falls through. When and only when one finds this person they are no longer afraid. No longer afraid to venture into the light which we call happiness. No longer afraid to take chances and delve into the scary mess which is love. Until one finds this person they will be cold and alone. 

Being alone makes time go by faster. You die quicker either from substance abuse, taking your own life, or the toll stress takes on your body. Being alone can even make people fall into the dark abyss of depressing. Depression is a dark being and it takes strength and help to beat it. “Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats...live to be two years old” (Doyle). The message I believe Doyle is trying to get through to us is that you need to live a calm life with as least stress as possible. Stress makes one grow old and age. Stress is very bad for your health and can cut those two billion heartbeats into many less. The key to success is living a relaxed, stress free life. That means finding that special someone, starting a family and being happy. 

“But we know this: the animals with the largest hearts in the world generally travel in pairs, and their penetrating moaning cries, their piercing yearning tongue, can be heard underwater for miles and miles” (Doyle). Even the blue whale, who has the biggest heart of any known organism, travels with another member of its species. So if the biggest known heart still needs another heart as a companion to be happy, why would it not be the same for humans? The blue whales moan can be heard for miles and miles underwater. I think Doyle is trying to say that when two people are completely in love, their love can be felt anywhere. They could walk into a room and completely distract everyone solely from the energy they bring. 

Every single person has problems within themselves. Problems no one knows about. Problems that one needs to figure out themself. If one truly wants to have a healthy life and take care of themselves they also need to take care of their hearts in a spiritual manner. “No living being is without interior liquid motion. We all churn inside” (Doyle). Doyle understands people’s interior struggles and described various organisms’ hearts as if to say; no matter how big your heart is and how good you have it, you will always have to face adversity whether it be from the social world or from within yourself. 

Sometimes having your heart broken is inevitable. There are just some things that we as humans can not control. Things like death, sickness, natural disasters. In Joyas Voladores, Doyle states that, “When young we think there will come on person who will savor and sustain us always; when we are older we know this is the dream of a child, that all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of character, yet fragile and rickety forevermore, no matter how ferocious the defense and how many bricks you bring to the wall” (Doyle). Doyle believes that time is the best remedy for a broken heart. “Ain’t nothin wrong with going down. It’s staying down that's wrong” (Muhammed Ali). Everyone will get knocked down, that is just how it is. Doyle knew that everyone will get knocked down and he wanted to share his belief about time being the remedy. 

In Joyas Voladores, Doyle says we have two jobs; taking care of our heart both physically and being spiritually. Everyone is different and has their own coping methods. According to Doyle the best and only way to fully heal is to just wait. Wait and let time does what it does best, and that is heal. Joyas Voladores is Doyle’s thoughts on coping and his beliefs on how to live life with the least amount of stress and heartbreak.