In this essay, the prompt isn't clear. There's no defined point to us as readers; we're just left to infer from implications. In the beginning, it starts out very literally describing a hummingbird, and then zeros in on its heart. From there the writer jumps to and from various creatures' hearts, with facts otherwise thought pointless. "We all churn inside." as a quote stood out to me. The writer quickly turned a somewhat objective piece into something more symbolic, perhaps more personal to us.
The biggest impact the essay had on me was in the last paragraph, which seemed to happen as well to my classmates. The point goes on as that we fear a harrowed heart, that the heart is open always, that you can brick up your heart, but it'll always be kind of crushed. The truth rings out in these words; there's an end to happiness, there's an end to suffering, and there's an end to everything we feel in our hearts, no matter how deep down. But still, we all churn inside.
In reverse, your heart can seemingly crack by the good things or nostalgia. "A child's apple breath," referring to the innocence of those young. This in particular can even display that we all sort of miss the days when we were younger, not so much exposed to the terrible and the gloom of the world. There are infinite ways a heart can be damaged. As much as someone tries to ignore the love they feel or the brokenness they experience, a heart is a heart.
The sentence of the last paragraph, which seems to hit home for most people, is "So much held in a heart in a lifetime." Most could tell immediately that the conclusion of this essay wouldn't be about breeds of hummingbirds. The paper is wrapped up by teeth-clenching portrayals of scenarios similar to readers', perhaps meant to devilishly break one's heart.
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