I am engaged in a full on battle with my heart. You've heard the sayings, "Follow your heart" and "Listen to your heart." And, granted, sometimes these sayings are applicable, but what do you do when your heart and your brain disagree? Why does the heart reject what it doesn't want to hear? Why does the heart lie?
Heart says, "I want this."
Brain says "It's not good for you."
Heart tells Brain to shut up and get with the program.
Brain submits.
But why? Why does Heart fully overrule all logic in my life? Everyone tells me the same thing. Everything I read says the same thing. There is a constant flow of positive facts and ideas entering Brain, and as they enter, Heart reaches up and slashes them to pieces.
I'm asking rhetorical questions here. Brain does not have feelings that can be hurt. Brain does not build emotional attachments. Brain simply holds information. Brain can be a beautiful place, full of memories and pictures and knowledge. But Heart is the one that responds to all those things. It doesn't just see a memory. It sees a happy memory. It sees a sad memory. It builds attachments and forms feelings. And when those things get broken or rejected, Heart immediately gets offended, throws a hissy fit, falls to pieces, and refuses to be convinced by Brain to go on.
If only Brain could be more convincing. If only it could work its magic a little faster. But thankfully, Brain has a longstanding relationship with Time, and Brain calls on Time for help in moments like this.
With Time's help, Heart will eventually forget why it threw a fit, and Brain will finally succeed in its attempted overruling. And Heart will wonder why it ever gave up in the first place because Brain will be so reassuring.
Heart is very fickle.
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