WhEn LiFe DoEs NoT MaKe SeNsE

When Life Doesn't Make Sense

Logic -- we're taught to use logic in dealing with the challenges of life. Mr. Spock, our Star Trek Vulcan idol, teaches us the power of logic in handling dilemmas of galactic proportions; Sherlock Holmes relies on the stream of logical deductions to solve mysteries and crimes, not to mention the long list of famous philosophers who taught us to compute, deduce, strategize, and organize. Logic, then, must be an excellent tool in life.

But what if the challenge we face literally defies logic? What if life just doesn't make any sense? I'm sure you've been in this situation some time or another -- during your adolescent years, when you first fell in love, when your parents broke up, when you quit your job, when your son died -- when the whole world simply "does not compute". What do you do?

Trust your heart.

Life will always be plagued with "What if?" It's partner question: "I wonder if...?" And more often than not, the answer is "Your guess is as good as mine." How nice it would be if we could all just rely on logic when we wonder about what we could've, should've, or would've done in the past. How easy it would be if we could simply "compute" to know what lies in the future. Life would be so simple.

But such is not the case. We wonder if we've done our best for our children, and imagine if they will be happy the rest of their lives. We ask ourselves if we are making the right decisions in moving to another town, another job, another partner in life. We stay awake at night wondering if the persons we care for love us as much as we love them.

How can we stop wondering and asking? Maybe someday the answers and solutions will present themselves. But for the time there are no definite responses, the answers will have to come from your heart.

Feel with your heart.

The heart has no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, or skin -- no physical sensors to discriminate the ugly, loud, pungent, bitter, or prickly. It doesn't know how to count. It doesn't recognize time or space. It has a world of its own -- a sensitivity to the rhythm of the universe. It has its own language of values, emotions, and primal synchronicity. It is oblivious to logic.

Take time to listen to your heart. When the answers do not come to you in words, when solutions do not appear to you in the physical world, go inside you and listen to your heart. Feel with your heart. Then you'll know. And suddenly life will make sense