Growing up
There’s a song by Mumford and Sons that goes: “And my head told my heart ‘let love grow’ but my heart told my head ‘this time no’.” I came across it and realized that maybe even a few months ago, I would have identified with this line. I even have a lengthy post detailing a classic ‘head vs. heart’ battle, of sorts. Honestly, though, it all seems so silly.
It’s impossible to generalize and describe what everyone goes through going up, but those lyrics (or more accurately, how.. well, stupid I found them to be) made me realize how silly, and childish I’ve been, pitting my head vs. heart, or my intuition vs. my intellect, etc. I can understand why it’s a popular dichotomy, but it’s also a false one.
Time to grow out of that, isn’t it? They’re one in the same. Head or heart, it’s all me, and maybe this year’s lesson was learning how to listen better to Me. And of course, I am large and contain multitudes, but ultimately, I seek (as does everyone in the world) happiness for myself. The old ‘head vs. heart’ game is just a way of representing two different paths to travel, aimed at the same destination; how surprised am I to find that in fact, the paths run parallel and alone, get me nowhere? Instead, the best way for me to live authentically is to follow the path that lies somewhere in between.
