Everyone's had that moment, the moment where you realise that you acted without thinking and that maybe you should have taken a moment to think about what you were doing. I'm not talking about regrets; I'm talking about the moment when your brain kicks into action, hours or even days too late.
We're all guilty of acting on instinct, of letting our emotions and heart guide us, rather than listening to the logical reasoning of the brain. After all, sometimes there's no time to go through the ifs and buts and it's just a lot easier to take notice of your heart and do what feels right. It's the age-old dilemma of head or heart?
Sometimes things don't make sense. That's the whole point of life. To learn, to make sense of the things we don't know, and to take the experience that we gain with us when we move on to the next stages of our lives. And at the same time, there's no need to be serious. Even the good things, the people we love and the things that make us laugh, don't have to make sense. The title of this blog comes from a conversation I had not even half an hour ago while looking at a friend's holiday pictures. It makes no sense, it made us laugh and for a moment we were happy. And that's the most important thing. Act on what will make you happy. Do something if you know that if you don't you'll spend forever wonderng. After all, there's nothing stopping you. If it's a mistake you'll learn, if it's not you could find opportunities that you didn't even know existed. Let nothing stop you from doing the things that make you smile. Even if one day the choices you made make you said, remember how you felt at the time. Remember the smile that wouldn't leave, the daze of contentment and the excited butterflies.
It was worth it.
The day you lose the ability to smile is the day you lose the ability to live.
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