This Is What Intuition Feels Like
How to make the difference between fear, hope, and intuition
I think I was 15 when I first misinterpreted intuition. I was wondering if a boy liked me and I read this advice:
If you feel that he likes you, then your intuition is probably right.
I did feel like he likes me, so I went ahead and admitted my feelings. I thought he was just shy, you know.
He said something about us being friends, and a week later, he started going out with one of my friends.
The funny thing is, I wasn’t at all surprised by his response.
Why did I rush to admit anything?
Did my intuition purposely deceit me?
I forgave it that little glitch, and since then, I tried to rely on it time and time again: on choosing a college major, on choosing jobs, on choosing men, on making big and small decisions.
Sometimes it helped me, sometimes it failed me, and I couldn’t figure out what the problem was.
Why was my gut feeling so unreliable?
It wasn’t until I turned thirty that I finally saw a trend. I noticed how I felt before making the right decision and before making the wrong one. I started “predicting” the future and acting…