Follow Your Gut

When you are a little kid you ‘don’t like’ or ‘don’t want‘ and you can’t say why.  You just have this feeling.

All the adults and their goldfish try to talk you out of it.

They talk about logic, giving  chances, not making a judgement, whatever words they use to tell you not to listen to your gut but to intellectualize the situation.

Since you are a little kid, you listen.  You may feel that Miss Teacher ‘doesn’t like you’. Everyone will tell you that you are wrong.   Miss Teacher may even give you a frozen smile.

But you are never chosen for the position of monitor, until everyone else has already done it and a couple of them were repeat selections.

But Miss Teacher always picks on you, insults you.

You try to suppress your ‘childish’ feelings, and you will be wrong to do so.

If you let society control you, there will come a time when you will not even recognize your feelings and walk into situations you can avoid.

You’ll stick around until you are virtually kicked out.  You’ll miss a lot of ‘clues’.

As you get older you’ll find yourself being confused, because you are pretending that ‘everyone is equal’ that there is no ‘personal input’ .

Humans are emotional creatures.  They go with feelings, attitudes, prejudices, assumptions, and although they can make this into dialectics, and expel thousands of words, the basic fact; “I don’t like you” is not said.  But this is the basis.

In life, pay attention to your feelings.  Listen to your gut.

You might be in a relationship and it feels wrong.  You can’t put your finger on it, but there’s something off.  Follow the feeling.

You might be in a job and get the impression that something is going on, something sinister, leave.

Just because you can not articulate the reason, don’t let that stop you.

You have two factions inside of you; one is the intellectual, the other is the emotional.

When you are doing homework or office work, or dealing with your bank, fine.  Intellectual.

But the minute it is person, it is people, listen to the emotional side. Go with you feelings.

There are people who will use you.  Their words are sweet, they smile, the act nice, but you feel…they are playing me. You are probably right.