I feel like I ought to reply to your post, just
because it seems to me like you might be
exchanging one fallacy for another. You
mentioned that previously in your life, you'd
always chosen the more rational, well-thought
out choice over your gut feeling when making
decisions. Now you seem to be saying that
you're planning to always go with what "feels
right" -- whether it makes sense or not.

It seems to me that in making a 180-degree
reversal in the way you make decisions, you're
simply switching one wrong way of making
choices for another.

Gut feelings are important, and you shouldn't
discount them, but thinking through things is
equally necessary when making important
decisions.

I'm not talking about deciding whether to buy
regular Mountain Dew or Code Red when
you're in the carbonated beverage aisle in the
supermarket. I'm not talking about deciding
what kind of new computer to buy. Those are
decisions you can make based solely on one
or the other. (Beverage choices can be made
based on gut feelings, while buying a
computer would be better left to the rational
thought method.)

But major, life-changing decisions-- things
like where to go to college; whether to accept
a job offer or not; who to marry-- these types of
things should be both well thought-out AND
thoroughly explored with the emotions. These
are decisions that will determine the entire
course of your life. Do you really want to trust
your entire future to a gut feeling that might
change tomorrow, or a week from now, or ten
years from now?

One more thing: if you're a Christian, you
should never make an important, possibly
life-changing decision without consulting God.
Pray about these things. Pray, do your
homework, and search your heart, and THEN
make what you believe is the right decision. It
may not always be what you feel like doing,
and it it may not always make sense to you,
but you'll know you did the right thing.

Gri"now if I could just get myself to follow this
advice more often..."shny