Rilaly's Blog
Simple Truths

I hate people who think entirely too often with their heart. I understand that the heart, the emotive component of the brain, has a lot of say in what we do and think, but some people just let that emotive component have far too much sway in what they do and say. I’m a man who believes that logic rules. Logic, to my mind, is the idea that you try as hard as you can to view matters objectively. You attempt to view matters not only from your own perspective, but from others as well. The latter is difficult to do, because it involves viewing matters from a perspective that is not a part of your conscious and subconscious mind. It involves removing the nature of who you are and viewing it from another’s perspective, then adding the ingredient of who you are back into the equation after the fact. I like to think that this is what I do, but it’s tough to do consistently, because you are the one who has to live with the ramifications of your actions regardless what the other minds around you think. A friend of mine recently inserted a third component into the equation: the gut. Gut instinct, my friend said, introduces a combination of experiences from your conscious and subconscious mind that take into account the emotions of the heart combined with the logic of the mind that has been ingrained into the nature of the person that’s relative to that person’s upbringing, his heritage, and everything else that makes him the man who he is today. Regardless which of the latter arguments is correct, they’re both superior to the man whose thought process is ruled by the heart. The man whose mind is overruled by his heart tends to think anecdotally, and while he may resolve the matter in the short-term for the object of his affection, he does little good in the overall for the long-haul.