Do what you want.  Just listen to your heart.

What great advice and certainly something I believe wholeheartedly.  This is advice I would be delighted to take but there is just one problem: I don’t hear anything.  Hello?  Is anybody there?  Anyone wanna tell me how you are feeling? Want to open up or anything?  I’m ready when you are, tell me what you want.

When I think about this advice and how often everyone hears it I wonder, are there people out there that need this advice?  Or are they all like me; they aren’t completely sure.  If there are such people, I will call them the “others,” then what the hell are you waiting for?  Do it!  Do what your heart is telling you, you are fortunate that it speaks.

I know as soon as I hear any kind of faint whisper of something I want, I jump on it (unless it’s a gallon of ice cream, then there are other factors to consider).  No, if I ever feel anything coming from inside my chest I know it must be serious, because being absolutely sure about something and knowing deep down it’s what I want is not something that happens to me often.

I was reading an article on thoughtcatalog.com called “25 Things I’ve Learned in my 20s,” and about half of them struck a cord with me, number five being the loudest.

“You’ll question every decision you make and never feel completely certain that you made the right choice.  It’s pointless to wonder though.  You’re here now so you might as well make it be the right decision.”

Amen.

Assuming that following your heart is the right decision and seeing that this even made the list, it makes me wonder how many people out there can’t hear their heart either.  Does this ever go away?  This is what I want to know.  Does anyone ever mature out of this feeling of: Did I do the right thing?

I don’t recall ever regretting anything I’ve done (excluding a few things that involved alcohol).  I like to think, and this conviction has only strengthened with maturity, that if there isn’t clearly a right and wrong choice then maybe they are both good, better yet, maybe either one of them would be great!

So far in my life I’ve had some long term decisions to make and I have disliked every single one of them.  But with each decision I know that only I have the ability to make it the right one.  So far with my choices I have also had the ability to make a change if I need to.

Regardless of how all of my choices have turned out so far (nothing too physically or emotionally damaging) I would love to make a choice with my heart sometime soon.  Dear the more experienced lifers, tell me that one day I will do something because my heart tells me to.