“Follow Your Gut Feeling”
I know it’s a cliché but the older and wiser I get the more I realize that clichés are clichés for a reason. They are clichés because they are true and people use them so much because they are so true.
“The truth shall set you free.”
When we are young, clichés are just words that go in one ear and out the other because we hear them so much and because they have not become true to us yet. But the older we become, the more we realize they have so much truth to them. I have always tried to live my life by my gut. I didn’t always succeed. Some people might think that little voice in our gut is intuition or God. No matter what you call it, it is the same. It is your heart telling you what is “right” for you.
“Youth is wasted on the young.”
When I think back, my gut never steered me wrong but there were two times I didn’t listen to it. The first time was when I was leaving from a long backpacking trip to Europe and knew I should stay. There was even a “sign” that I should have stayed when I missed my flight. But, I still came back home.
The second time, I’m sorry to say, was when I got married. Everything was telling me to get married. I was comfortable, and everything added up to just get married. But, my gut told me something different. It was telling me that I just wasn’t sure. But it would have been harder to stop the steam train that was speeding down the track. So, I did the easy thing.
“Two wrongs don’t make a right.”
In retrospect, I should have listened to my gut both times. Instead I did what I was supposed to do. What added up. The easy path. What was expected of me. All that stuff:)
So, I must learn from my experiences. And start listening to my gut again. I will not regret my choices in life, I will learn from them. It is unfortunate that we can’t learn from other people’s experiences and can only learn from our own, but it would be even more unfortunate if we don’t learn from them at all. And it is time to do just that.
“It is never too late.”
My gut is screaming at me right now and I must listen to it! It’s telling me that it’s time to follow my dreams. I have an opportunity staring me right on the face and there is absolutely nothing in my way and I just can’t it pass up. And I couldn’t be more excited:)
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of his dreams.”