Why You Can’t Outsmart Your Gut

It’s scary—not to write—but to publish. It feels a bit like joining the masses. In a world where it feels like everyone is screaming, where everyone is adamantly professing their view on any given topic, it feels strangely odd to join in and add one more site, one more digital footprint of someone who is trying to say something. Even if it’s a different conversation. It feels a bit like adding to the noise, and that’s not my goal.

But the reality is, this has been an itch that won’t go away. And I know better than to try to outsmart my gut. It always comes back to get you in one way or another. Or, maybe not so much to get you, but more like a persistent child who simply will not stop tugging on your jacket until you acknowledge her. I’m just trying to kneel down, look that child in the eyes, and hear what she has to say, staying open to the possibility that the answers that I seek are right in front of me.