What To Follow?
It is important to balance out the influence of what you feel like your heart is telling you to do and what your head is telling you. Listening to the hearts passionate pleas brings us closer to our dreams, but tuning out reason can lead to the making of hasty decisions. While listening to just your reason may help to make responsible decisions, it may also keep you from following what you want to do in life.
Where Are We Going?
The heart leads a great rally cry for the dreams in life, but without a path to follow you may never reach them. It’s like having two different navigators. One is looking around for what you want to go after, while the other is the one actually navigating. If these two guides are not in agreement, then all you will ever have is a distant view of what you desire. The most difficult of journeys require the most meticulous planning, and life is no exception.
Balance Is Key, Of Course
The influence of your passions and your reason must be carefully balanced. In order to go after your dreams, you must follow your heart. But to reach them in the end, you must use your brain to figure out how to get there. At times you must use a little more than the other, but overall you need both co-pilots along the way. You have to look at the path at your feet to find if you are aimed at what you envision in the distance. And without a destination, you may just end up walking in directionless circles on the path you find yourself on.
No Guarantees
We shake our heads at those who seemed to blindly follow their dreams to a meal of fruitless failure and humble pie. While, in pity we look at those who simply never even tried to dream. Because they never thought any of them would ever come true, even if they dreamed up a few. In life we have passions and things we only dream of actually doing, and we should try everything we can to go after them.
There are no guarantees that they will be reached. But if the risk is worth the reward then push on. Push on with patient reason and growing passion. This is how you should follow your dreams. Long, strenuous, disheartening patience and relaxed reason must be used in order to ever reach them. And you must never forget the passion that brought you here in the first place. And of course don’t forget to bring some perseverance, actually bring a lot of it.
Only when you have brought your heart and your head to a place of agreement can you pursue what is off in the distance.
Life, keep it simple and live it
Josh