Following my Gut

December 6, 2014December 6, 2014Aruna@RipplesnReflections

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Gut Feeling.”

When’s the last time you followed your instinct despite not being sure it was the right thing to do? Did it end up being the right call?

Oh I know the feeling – the gut feeling

Even as this very prompt , I am reading

So often as my heart and head debate

I can feel the logic and reason abate.

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As my thoughts do battle and I trust my instinct

As a doctor, a science student this must be extinct.

I know this and yet I can possibly never comprehend

Why my gut feeling leads me to many a “logical” end!!

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A contradiction, well isn’t life itself often one?

Have we mastered the mysteries , has anyone?

Many a time it is that my heart is the real winner

As my poor head and logic is the well fought loser!

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No regrets – I have often gone where angels fear to tread

No lifebuoys, no cushions yet I do not land on my head.

And for that, grateful I always am and always will be

On that note , I say Adios ! Let me be the Illogical logical me !!

andy1076 December 6, 2014 / 10:53 pm

You are so good at turning a prompt into haikus that everyone can relate to 🙂

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- Aruna @RipplesnReflections December 7, 2014 / 7:34 am
  
  Thanks Andy…that is a fantastic compliment…superliner! 😊😊
  
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  - andy1076 December 7, 2014 / 8:15 am
    
    Just the truth! 😊
    
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Soul n Spirit December 6, 2014 / 11:25 pm

Ah ! The so prominent gut feeling of us, the women folk……good one !

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- Aruna @RipplesnReflections December 7, 2014 / 7:35 am
  
  Yes indeed…sometimes it leads us to tigers!😊😊
  
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  - Soul n Spirit December 7, 2014 / 1:31 pm
    
    Haha that’s a good one. 🙂
    
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rajivkrishnan57 December 6, 2014 / 11:46 pm

Wow!! Fantastic !! Truly a woman’s perspective!!

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- Aruna @RipplesnReflections December 7, 2014 / 7:35 am
  
  Yeah….No doubt!😊
  
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Sia-Discover Life December 7, 2014 / 1:37 am

A wonderful piece of poetry Aruna. Loved it!

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- Aruna @RipplesnReflections December 7, 2014 / 7:37 am
  
  Thanks Sia….am so glad …I would call it just verse or rhyme though…poetry is a long way off! 😊
  
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sheenmeem December 7, 2014 / 1:52 am

Awesome! Sheen.

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- Aruna @RipplesnReflections December 7, 2014 / 7:37 am
  
  Thanks Sheen…glad you liked it..☺
  
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In Pursuit of Rainbow December 7, 2014 / 1:23 pm

It’s just mindblowing. 🙂

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- Aruna @RipplesnReflections December 8, 2014 / 7:18 am
  
  Oh really? Thanks a ton… great to hear that – you just made my day… a #100happydays Moment!! 🙂
  
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amit garg December 8, 2014 / 12:44 am

seems like a sequential chain of thoughts written as they come to mind ………how come it rymed so beautifully…amazing…..I guess “gut ryming”…..wow…cheers

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- Aruna @RipplesnReflections December 8, 2014 / 7:20 am
  
  Thanks a ton Amit… Great to see you here… but could not “find ” your blog…. 🙂
  
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amit garg December 8, 2014 / 12:46 am

^rhyming

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sweetykannoth December 8, 2014 / 10:12 am

Nice one…and i loved the last lines ‘Let me be the Illogical logical me !!’…captures the essence of our contradictory selves !

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Saya December 9, 2014 / 10:44 am

very well put 🙂 illogical logical me 🙂

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