Follow your heart.
You've heard that before.
What does it mean?
Where do I start?
How can I know it will work before I leave?
How can I be assured the security I need?
Those are the wrong questions to ask.
Better to get going,
It's how you learn fast.
There is no path,
No map to follow,
No seven-step process,
No next lesson tomorrow.
Life will be your greatest teacher.
Show up.
Pay attention.
Pay the meter.
This will cost you more than you realize.
You'll face setback after setback.
That's just growth in disguise,
All to help you wake up and go,
Oh,
That's who I am inside.
Once you start.
There's no looking back.
So how about I give you some better questions to ask?
What if nothing's missing?
What if you're already there?
Watch the notion of following your heart burst into thin air.
Because your heart doesn't need you to pursue it.
It's been beating before you even knew it.
What if life knows what it's doing?
All it needs you to do is get out of the way.
Let the Tao take over.
Do you get that wordplay?
But for real,
Here's the deal.
I'm sharing these words to let you know how I feel.
I've been following my heart for years.
I still don't know where it's going.
All I got is what I can show for it.
I've traveled the world,
Been to all beautiful places.
I got a woman that's loved me through all different phases.
I got work that I love and a teacher I call son.
Come to think about it.
I have already won.
You see,
He's the one I got sober for.
I took that leap,
Learned what I was made for,
And all this happened long before he came through the door.
Now that he's here,
It's time for my next iteration to know who I am,
No need for validation.
May my life be an example so he shoots for the stars.
When he asks for advice,
I might just say,
Follow your heart.
