Gut feeling

Gut feeling

 

Intuition

: A sixth sense, hunch, or gut feeling: Whatever you choose to call it, the sudden flash of insight from deep within can inspire plenty of faith. 

a strong belief about someone or something that cannot wholly be explained and does not have to be decided by reasoning

Sometimes, or most of the time, we often lose track of logic and reasons

in terms of the choices we make or the feelings we have.

That can make everything complex,

or even simple if we treat gut feeling in the other way. 

Living relying on gut feeling eight out of ten can be a lot of risk-taking and anxiety-facilitating.

 

But despite that, analyzing all the reasons for our choices and surroundings

is literally impossible and exhausting in the light of fast-paced seconds and days in our lives. 

So that's why I have an urge to have the wisdom 

to discern in which situation I should follow my gut feeling or not. 

The gut feeling seems irrational, hasty, distorted, and short-sighted.

But the delayed, long-lasting, and complicated thoughts in one issue can be more aberrant. 

The longer it takes to arrive at the destination for a clear and clever decision, 

the more the final decision can be mixed 

with others' opinions, unnecessary focus on past experiences, over concerns about others' feelings, 

and all the trivial to critical things that are not MINE. 

On the other hand, gut feelings are genuinely MINE. 

An instant intuition.

A strong attraction even with one glance.

A direction from the call in heart that intrigues me the most.

They are all derived from 

the accumulation of memories, life lessons, characters, nature, and the inner voice inside me. 

More than a piece of advice from a sage, it can be the most convincing.

More than a couple of nights of agonizing, it can be the most carefree. 

More than a bunch of lines from the best-sellers, it can be the most influential. 

More than a deep conversation with the besties, it can be the most reassuring.

More than a great deal of conviction, it can be the most undespairing.  

Still, pursuing gut feeling can be most responsible to embrace the result of one's choice. 

If you followed the outer voices to a great and small extent, other than your inner voice from the gut feeling,  

then you can blame others for the reason why you failed, not taking the whole responsibility of your choice, with creativity and boldness. 

But in the case of chasing one's gut feeling, then there is no other way 

than just acknowledging the lack of wisdom and embracing failure 

by seeing it as one of the trials and errors, which can lead us to develop. 

By listening to our gut feelings and following them, 

we can take a variety of risks,
which makes us "learn, feel, change, grow, live, love. (poem Risk by Janet Rand)",

we can get accustomed to saying "I admit I am wrong so that I can learn from it!" 

rather than "HE/SHE was so wrong that I failed."

Therefore, I let myself a bit more open to taking the courage in stepping forward with gut-feeling leading.

Although I still have no clear idea of when to follow the gut feeling and how often I should do it, 

I would also figure out them with my gut feeling

so that I can get the feel of the ideal timings for it by myself, not from 12 steps in a self-help book. 

And I would enjoy the unique and unrefined moves of driving my life 

with composure from taking responsibilities,

heaps of silly but hilarious recollections from failures,

and liberty by breaking away from unnecessary fetters of overthinking, blaming, and regretting.