My form 5 biology teacher once made what I thought was a shrewd statement that road users should use their brains instead of their hearts. He said, berhati-hati di jalan raya is bullshit. It should be berotak-otak di jalan raya. That’s why there are so many accidents, he said, because people use their hearts when driving, not their heads.
There’s also a saying that goes ikut hati mati, ikut rasa binasa – which I am not exactly sure what the fuck it means.
I watched an episode of House last week, he said (paraphrased here) to follow your heart is easy, to follow your head is difficult, that’s why so many of us are screwed up.
Eleanor Rosevelt’s famous quote is, “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” Now she’s an astute motherfucker, I got to say.
Warren Buffet’s famous mantra is, “…they (investors) should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.” Sounds easy enough. But to put this into practice takes a massive amount of willpower — to not be easily betrayed by our own emotions.
I think to “make it” in life, we need to use our heads (so we have less fuck-ups, financially or otherwise). But this does not guarantee happiness. The heart wants what it wants. It longs, yearns, and craves for what makes it happy — even if we have to lose our heads and fuck shit up to get it.
