If caught in indecision, I’m told,
I must follow my heart.
But that has not always led down the right path.
It’s fifty-fifty in my experience.
An intuition, like a result in a science experiment,
isn’t a conclusion. It merely shows that
something interesting has happened
which requires further investigation.
To make a major life change –
new career, new home, new city, new partner,
to have children or not – on an intuition is risky.
These decisions can have major life impacts,
not to be considered lightly, worth further research
and consideration, more thoughtful discussion,
with oneself or others. Alas, even then one can get a false positive,
find out a chosen path is blocked by an ogre
or ends at a gorge with a collapsed bridge, and one can suffer.
One can suffer badly.
But then again,
why not?
Why not make a major decision on an intuition?
Take a chance. Life is just a crapshoot anyway.
Make decisions based on either intuition or data.
What does it matter?
Just decide.
Just decide,
then resist grabbing the banks of the river.
Just float.
