Head vs Heart

Very often I'm tangled with this question.Given a situation or a problem how should one act upon.Should one listen to his head or his heart. I had almost always listened to what my head says rather than what my heart says.The reason is pretty simple. I have been brought up like that. People around me always told me that whenever there is a problem, analyse it,think about it logically or laterally, come out with possible solutions and choose the best one with minimal risk or loss in it.Be it in my house or school or college or my friends I was taught this way and nobody said that there is anything wrong with it.Also I do not think I haven't lost anything in life till this point.

But I think back and see what would have happened had I listened to my heart instead of my head during my counselling after 12th standard.I might have not chosen a computer science group in my college. I always wanted to graduate from Anna University/REC Trichy/PSG whatever the discipline be. When I went for my counselling I decided to go for S.R.M as my head suggessted. I'm wondering if I would have faired this well had I taken any other decision.

And recently I decided to quit my job after thinking hard. My heart would always have preferred to stay with my former employer. The project I got allocated was a pretty good one,I had very good friends, I had decent monetary benefits and my manager had faith in me. So I could not have asked for more.But my head always kept on suggesting that there is something missing in here that could appraise me in my life.And listening to it I had quit, once again hoping that I would be right.

I remember a conversation that I had with one of my managers who is an American.He told me that given a situation he is not going to think too much.He always has the point of enjoying his life at any given time.Hence any decision that is going to hinder him his happiness, be it making him the next CEO he is not going to care.And he is happy with his life and self satisfied listening to his heart.

May be I have missed some things that would have provided more joy to me in life and I realise thats the price I need to pay for listening to my head.But as always looking at the problem 'Head - Heart', my head once again wins it.I still decide to listen to whatever it says.I would definitely want to change and start listening to my heart sometime in future, not because my head line is not good in my right palm but it means that at that point I'm self satisfied with whatever I have in my life.I hope that day is not too far.