Disregard Sensible Advice
March 16, 2008 Changing your life, Life choices, Making choices No Comments
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“A slow death comes for those who don’t revolt when they’re unhappy in their work or in love. Who don’t risk the certain for the uncertain in order to follow a dream. Who don’t allow themselves, at least once in their life, to disregard sensible advice.” –Pablo Neruda
Taking sensible advice is what most of us were raised to do.
- Finish your dinner
- Get a good job
- Don’t talk to strangers
- Be satisfied
- Don’t travel abroad, it’s not safe
Although good advice is well-intentioned, following it does not always lead to personal happiness.
- Finishing your dinner can lead to overeating, heartburn and obesity.
- Getting a good job that bores and stresses does not build character, just more upset.
- As for strangers, isn’t everyone except your mother a stranger until you meet them?
- Being satisfied would bring an abrupt halt to invention.
- It’s not safe to get on the freeway either, but we must do it to get where we’re going
When your heart and mind are longing to go in a new direction, disregard sensible advice. It’s not doing what you love that you will later regret.
