The Weeknd : The Knowing

When I found out that The Weeknd had a video for The Knowing, I was all over it. Its one of my favorite tracks off of his first mixtape House of Balloons. The song pretty much is about infidelity and how he knows that its taking place in the relationship but he's okay with it because he's doing his own thing as well. The video is set in the far away future on a planet where The Weeknd fights to get his heart back. Everything about this video is awesome...

Intuition...

You know that feeling  you get when something just doesnt seem right? That gut-wrenching feeling you have when you KNOW you're right about a situation?

Why is it that when we have these feelings, we never follow them? Why is it that even though we have these senses that are urging us to listen to them we hardly do? Why does it always take for us to actually get caught-up in a bad situation for us to realize that we should have followed our first instinct? You know that moment when we say "Damn I should have just went with what I was going to do in the beginning". People always say to always "Go with your gut" or that "Intuition never lies". So how come with us knowing his information, we rarely take heed to it?

I think we ignore the gut feeling because a situtation might be so hard to deal with that we just DONT want it to be true or real. We ignore the signs and push them aside  as being just our brains overreacting or jumping to too many conclusions. Its basically self-sabotage. But how do we stop ourselves from doing it? Easy...just listen to it. That little voice in our head going off  isnt alerting us for no reason.

Ive always had great intuition and knew how a situation would play out almost immediately. Its so strong sometimes that my stomach tightens and I feel sick! My problem was that I never went along with my gut feeling. Ive made many mistakes in my life because of going with my second decisions and not my first. I dont regret them at all though. As I've gotten older, I taught myslef to go with what I feel is right deep down inside my soul...and body lol. This avoids me sitting around singing my "wouldve, shouldve, couldve" song, and getting to the point. Im also more in-tune with myself and people around me. Now, Im not perfect. I still may try to silence that voice in my head, but if its screaming loud enough, I'll snap right out of it. :)

Mistakes are going to be made in life. But some situations can be avoided completely if you just follow that intuition. Trust me, it'll never lead you astray :)


BE Dope, BE Beautiful,

-Nish

Hold Your Own...

As I was coming out of a meeting a couple weeks ago, there was this sign above that was sitting outside the door. I found it pretty ironic because that day and a couple days before that I had two separate conversations with my friends about just this. I've always been the type of person to do things myself. Even when I was younger, I wanted to do things on my own. Not because I had to, more so  that I needed to. If I had a problem, Id try to figure it out on my own and exhaust every source before Id go and ask someone else for help. I rarely ask anyone for help to do anything unless I truly feel in my mind that there is no other way (shrugs). Idk if it's pride or what but that's just how I operate. I feel that if you want things done in life then YOU have to do it. I cant stand a person who sits around waiting for a handout or someone to tell them what to do next. I never understood why a person would want someone else to do something thats going to represent them in the end. That's not being an adult to me. Part of growing up is learning how to be self-sufficient and unless you have some type of disability that halts you from being independent, then you shouldnt be depending on other people all the time. Now I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with asking for help because it isnt. But there IS something wrong when you let the fate of what you want to happen be decided by someone else other than yourself. At the end of the day..all I'm saying is that if you have your eyes on something, get it done. Dont let anything or anyone deter you from what you want to accomplish...plain and simple :)


BE Dope, BE Beautiful,
-Nish