Listening to That Gut Instinct

So many times in our lives, we have to make some really difficult and really critical choices. So we gather the facts and seek advice. But when it comes down to it, we have to listen to that small voice inside of us that speaks to us about the rightness or wrongness of the choices we are about to make.

In such moments, we think about being prudent and cautious. We weigh the pros and cons. We weigh the consequences of taking one road or the other. But sometimes, that gut instinct inside of us points us in the direction that defies common sense or logic. Something tells us that the path less traveled or the course which is just a little more risky is the one we need to take. There is that sense that unless we see what lays just around the bend, we will never forgive ourselves, even if that was the wrong way to go. Sometimes we have to follow that sense of adventure to see where it will take us. Even if we find ourselves back at base one, we will know that we will have given it our best shot and that it was worth every moment of the misadventure.

We can live our lives cautiously and carefully. But then when we reach the end of the road we will have had little to remember and a boatload of regrets for not at least having at least once followed a dream. I ask you, what kind of life is that? I answer, not the sort of life I want.