Better Heart?

Following your heart can break it - multiple times. But if you truly know no other way to live, you repair those cracks pretty quickly. I follow my heart by nature. It's just in me. It's the only way I know how to be. When I try to be more cerebral and follow my head, something always feels wrong, and often I just feel unhappy. Now don't get me wrong, the heart's path is a painful one, but the lessons you learn along the way are amazing, and the experiences you have on the journey...well, I think that's what life is all about.
My father always told me to think with my head (although he felt that that was the opposite of what a woman's natural make up is). He really tried with all his might to drum that one into my head. But it would just not compute with me. Now he would look at my life and see mistakes. He would put that down to me following my heart, living emotionally and not planning ahead and thinking about security and the future. I look at it in a much different way. I'm more in the moment. I'm about the journey of life - the love, the laughs, the heartaches, the pain, the whole bundle. Sometimes I look at my friends and a lot of the people I admire and I feel like we're a different generation. We don't know what's around the corner or how this is all going to pan out because its a first. We aren't fixated on locking down a job for life (do those exist anymore?!). We're not focused on our pension or what we'll be doing 20 years from now. And we sure are not able to swallow the mentality that our parents had, which is - a job is something that puts food on the table and feeds your family. it provides security. It is not something that you need to be passionate about and love. That's the opposite of what most of my friends and I think - we can't imagine being stuck in a job we hate for the rest of our lives.
So who's right and who will end up wrong? I don't think it's a right/wrong scenario. It's just about taking responsibility for your life, no matter where the path leads.
But the way I see it, all the people that achieved something amazing in this world, that made a difference, even the 'great minds'...well, the paradox is that they followed their hearts.

"If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart."
Marilyn Vos Savant