The heart speaks to us every moment, every day. Sometimes it keeps on tugging at the very string of our existence so much so that we wish if it could shut up for good. Our lives are built around the milestones where we have either truly listened to our hearts or muffled its voice. Those are the times, the twists and the turns which define our lives. Those moments are what make our lives remarkable. The critical points where we decided to step up or step out, walk in or walk out, believe or doubt, trust or betray, fall or rise, surrender or fight, hold on or let go… they make the person that we become, the emotions and thoughts we harbor, they make our lives.
Life’s choices are options in disguise of circumstances and situations which ordain our destiny. The choices make us who we are. Whether we are going in for something or out of it or don’t do anything about it, no matter what, we always end up choosing. The option to not choose is also a choice by default. When we make a choice, we may either be following our heart or turning a deaf ear towards its mumblings. Where do our choices lead us then? Does it fill our lives with happiness or do we still hunger for it?
The way we are, we all want happiness in our lives. Anything happy or joyous attracts us and makes us feel good inside. Nobody wants to befriend sorrow or disappointments in life. If our make up is such then certainly our hearts would surely want something happy and joyous for the person in whom it is beating. The heart’s wishes and longings in its barest and truest form, only speaks of what would bring happiness to us. No partiality or inclination digress a true heart’s desire. Its intentions are always true and genuine, like those of a young child barely few years old. For in today’s time even a child, who has just become 2 digit years old, fails to remain uncorrupted by the ways of the world! The uncorrupted and undiluted hearts’ wishes when followed right to the ‘T’ would then only result in happiness. The catch however is, we don’t consciously look for happiness when we are kids. It is not a thought out thought or planned out action. It’s just how it is. Like when you ‘just be’ sometimes. But once we grow up, our actions and decisions tend to become less and less involuntary and more and more calculated or thought out. The genuineness of the heart fails to transform into a genuine act. Then there are just heartaches and disappointments galore. The fault isn’t in the hearts’ murmurs but in the medium through which we translate and decipher its words. We can feel as chilled at the height of summer in an AC room as in winter. The air blowing through the vent may compel you or even succeed in making you feel you are in the coldest place on the planet. But the freshness and the chills of the wind blowing in your face and ruffling your clothes as you stand with your arms stretched wide open atop a mountain is something else altogether. Pure and pristine, cold and calming, what it does to you and how it makes you feel is completely different from the experience in an AC room. When we hear our heart speak and carefully listen to it, catching every word, every sound, every expression and understanding what it is trying to tell us and acting on it without much ado is when we can know for sure, wherever it is that our hearts are taking us, our happiness lies there.
Life’s choices are options in disguise of circumstances and situations which ordain our destiny. The choices make us who we are. Whether we are going in for something or out of it or don’t do anything about it, no matter what, we always end up choosing. The option to not choose is also a choice by default. When we make a choice, we may either be following our heart or turning a deaf ear towards its mumblings. Where do our choices lead us then? Does it fill our lives with happiness or do we still hunger for it?
The way we are, we all want happiness in our lives. Anything happy or joyous attracts us and makes us feel good inside. Nobody wants to befriend sorrow or disappointments in life. If our make up is such then certainly our hearts would surely want something happy and joyous for the person in whom it is beating. The heart’s wishes and longings in its barest and truest form, only speaks of what would bring happiness to us. No partiality or inclination digress a true heart’s desire. Its intentions are always true and genuine, like those of a young child barely few years old. For in today’s time even a child, who has just become 2 digit years old, fails to remain uncorrupted by the ways of the world! The uncorrupted and undiluted hearts’ wishes when followed right to the ‘T’ would then only result in happiness. The catch however is, we don’t consciously look for happiness when we are kids. It is not a thought out thought or planned out action. It’s just how it is. Like when you ‘just be’ sometimes. But once we grow up, our actions and decisions tend to become less and less involuntary and more and more calculated or thought out. The genuineness of the heart fails to transform into a genuine act. Then there are just heartaches and disappointments galore. The fault isn’t in the hearts’ murmurs but in the medium through which we translate and decipher its words. We can feel as chilled at the height of summer in an AC room as in winter. The air blowing through the vent may compel you or even succeed in making you feel you are in the coldest place on the planet. But the freshness and the chills of the wind blowing in your face and ruffling your clothes as you stand with your arms stretched wide open atop a mountain is something else altogether. Pure and pristine, cold and calming, what it does to you and how it makes you feel is completely different from the experience in an AC room. When we hear our heart speak and carefully listen to it, catching every word, every sound, every expression and understanding what it is trying to tell us and acting on it without much ado is when we can know for sure, wherever it is that our hearts are taking us, our happiness lies there.
I do agree that following the heart is the way to be happy, but unfortunately there is no real way anymore to ignore our desires. It takes a very very courageous step to go out and conquer true happiness, at the cost of perceived happiness. I too always want to follow my heart, but I know it will be at the cost of many desires and people, so I slow down. You have tken a step towards it just now, but again, you will become answerable for it as well.
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that's why the step in the first place... at the end of the day we are answerable no matter what we do... at least it's better to have followed our heart and be answerable for it than otherwise... I see where you are getting at and believe me, the questions are already raising their hoods... but i also know that the struggle will never end... and we can never truly be winners... someday we will all be giving in to it... i don't wanna give in just yet...
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