“Listen to your heart.” What does it mean?
It’s a phrase we hear all the time. Songs have been sung, people pass it off as words of wisdom to the forlorn and the heartbroken. I found it in my horoscope today. The sentence before it stated that my emotions must not be ignored.
As advice, it sounds pretty. It lends to the imagination the idea that our hearts speak to us and can guide us on which way to go when we are unsure. But when we listen to our hearts, must we necessarily go in the direction we really want? Or does it mean that we should do what we know is right?
I wonder if cardiologists everywhere roll their eyes whenever they hear the phrase spoken aloud?
Thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump…
Blog post of December 6th, in honour of Every Damn Day December. Check it out! It’s not too late to join in!
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December 10, 2013 at 6:19 am
That phrase has never got me nowhere but trouble!! excuse the double negative !! 😉 xxxxxxx
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December 10, 2013 at 10:16 am
At that time in the morning you’re entitled to a double negative. Heck, take a triple! 🙂
It is a loaded phrase, isn’t it?
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December 10, 2013 at 12:29 pm
yes it is!! 😉
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December 9, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Well they have to say follow your heart because it would look pretty stupid to say ‘follow your soul/inner voice/voices in your head’.
I’ve got a gig coming up in January with OM as well. Must get to pre-writing. Unfortunately couldn’t do the two weeks because it fell on my week off work and we are going away for a few days but one week is good!!
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December 9, 2013 at 7:27 pm
Hey, that’s great! January’s going to be an interesting month over at HarsH ReaLiTy. 😀
And I agree – that would make for some awkward lyrics, wouldn’t it? haha
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December 7, 2013 at 1:43 am
The heart has always been immortalised in romantic fiction or music and so has been attributed with a mind of its own – What the heart wants, the heart gets etc. The other part of the anatomy which is far less romantic is ‘go with your gut feeling’ This time of the morning – rumbly and in need of sustenance.
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December 7, 2013 at 10:35 am
People have been known to starve for love … nice to see you’re not one of them! 🙂
Thanks for your comment. 😀
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December 6, 2013 at 9:13 pm
both heart and mind can lead you astray… follow your gut… the gut never lies
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December 6, 2013 at 9:20 pm
Well they do say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach… 😉
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December 6, 2013 at 9:34 pm
if only I could find me a woman who was a better cook than I am… lol… 😉
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December 6, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Unless you’re a master chef, I’m sure you’ll come across her one day. 🙂
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December 6, 2013 at 9:43 pm
I cooked professionally quite a few years, from restaurants to old age homes… sauces, sweets, and rustic are my specialties… I can bake too, use to sell cookies and cakes at the farmers market in Dunham the first year they had it… you name it I can make it and better than in most restaurants… I don’t eat out much because I can make better at home…
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December 6, 2013 at 9:45 pm
…I wonder if they say the way to a woman’s heart is through her stomach….?
hehe 😉
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December 6, 2013 at 9:47 pm
I’ve known a few women with empty legs when it comes to my cooking… and my brownies are to die for… 😉
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December 6, 2013 at 9:51 pm
*wipes mouth with back of hand* When did you say you were heading to Toronto?
😀
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December 6, 2013 at 8:50 pm
Good thing I am sober. Otherwise I’d be wailing away in a falsetto voice doing Triumph’s “Follow You Heart” tune.
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December 6, 2013 at 9:20 pm
Hahaha! Oh that I have to hear. Where’d that bottle of rum go again?
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December 6, 2013 at 9:25 pm
It ran away in fear (of my singing). }:-(>
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December 6, 2013 at 9:28 pm
Haha! Note to self: keep the Navigator away from any available karaoke machine.
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December 6, 2013 at 1:57 pm
Never understood that saying. I think it means do what you feel is right, but that doesn’t always means it’s the smartest move.
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December 6, 2013 at 2:01 pm
True. One would think listening to the brain would produce more smart moves…
🙂
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December 6, 2013 at 2:03 pm
The brain isn’t much better at times. Going by it alone, you get some callous decisions.
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December 6, 2013 at 2:12 pm
Yep, there’s got to be a balance there somewhere. You’re pretty much doomed otherwise.
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December 6, 2013 at 2:21 pm
Turn it into a council and find that middle ground. Unless you want to blame one or the other exclusively.
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December 6, 2013 at 2:25 pm
Right. But saying to a spouse after being caught cheating, “But my brain/heart told me to do it!” isn’t any less likely to get one out of trouble. 😉
Better to do the middle ground thing and get it right in the first place.
hehe
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December 6, 2013 at 2:36 pm
Yeah. The extreme screw ups typically don’t have any way out of them beyond admitting fault.
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December 6, 2013 at 7:10 pm
True enough.
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December 6, 2013 at 1:55 pm
When is it too late to join EDDD?
I refuse to listen to my heart. It’s dumb, like a middle schooler trying to impress a girl. I ended up putting slugs in her hair. It hasn’t gotten smarter. So are you taking the advice? Where is your heart leading you?
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December 6, 2013 at 1:58 pm
Haha! It’s too late when you’ve missed a day. 😛
Slugs? That must have made you popular with the ladies. 😉
My heart is leading me to write blogs all over WordPress. How am I doing so far? hehe
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December 6, 2013 at 2:02 pm
I was in fifth grade. Lauren never spoke to me again. But when I think about it, as you said, I’m pretty charming 😛
Where else are you? Though, HR is an awesome place. I get a week in mid January! Excited and scared at the same time. Already getting topics ready and will likely type up the posts late this month.
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December 6, 2013 at 2:11 pm
Give me a guy with slugs in one hand and charm in the other, and I think I’d still run away. hehe
I’m also trying to do the post every day on my fiction blog – you’re following me there, right? http://lindaghillfiction.wordpress.com/ and I could always pop over to The Community Storyboard and post there as well. If I have time I might do that.
Cool! It’ll be great to see what you write at HarsH ReaLiTy. It is a bit overwhelming at first, but it’s pretty darned awesome to see your name up there on OM’s page. And it’s loads of fun! You’ll have a ball. 😀
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December 6, 2013 at 2:16 pm
I did not! I shall read it with all the eagerness of a child in a candy store. With free candy.
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December 6, 2013 at 2:17 pm
😀
Well thank you, kind sir 🙂
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