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"Always Trust Your Feeling." Really?

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"Always Trust Your Feeling?"  This dictum sounds familiar and appealing. It is often used by my colleagues to address the students who consumes without any thought analysis. It sounds wise, thus the popularity. However, the reality is nuanced and misleading. This article discusses why the dictum is appealing and explores to interrupt the assumptions that frame the popularity of the dictum. Why does this dictum sounds fascinating?  The combination of "trust," "your," and "feeling" powerfully blends to tap into appealing aspect of human psychology and experiences. It can be safe to assert that it is powerful enough to hijack our rational self. "Trust your feeling" offers us utterly unique reason that equivocally sound reasonable to justify our feeling and actions. This phrase also helps us shield from societal judgement which is either dichotomies or are not of our liking. Simply put, it helps in what I may call "social-self preserva...

Story of westbound love and eastbound traveler


Foothing all through,
The eastbound traveler
Banked his trust to the lone road,
Befriend soulful songs,
Went seeking alms,
Begging,
Improvished.
"Yes,
The gates are open
And I’ve what you seek
The space and warmth
Importantly
Time,"
She smiled, sweetened the air
Tossed her hair to right
Took him by hand
Opened the gate.
"For you
Always
Hereon,"
She said.
However,
She is bound to west
He knew what that mean
Though.
May be,
It will eat some peace off him
To accept
The fate,
The defeat,
The toothy sorrow.
Ultimately,
He may.
Yet,
That may gnaw some peace
Off his dear heart
 Painfully!

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