What are we worth?

Are we worth so little to ourselves that we rely on others to define us? We listen to “experts”, “academics”, “learned ones” without question. Where is our critical thinking skill? Were we not given brains? Where is our compassion? Were we not given hearts? Where is our intuition? Were we not given guts?

This is blasphemous to the gifts that has been given to us. All of us, as humans, have been given three incredible tools to help us make decisions. And they are our brains, our hearts and our guts.

Working together as a team, they help us make our decisions, big and small. Each as important as the other, we shouldn't ignore any of them. Often we're too lazy and too busy to listen to the quiet whispers of our guts. The gentle voice of our hearts. The soothing reasoning of our brains.

Our guts are given to us as a gift of intuition. Somehow, deep within ourselves, we know what we should and shouldn't do. Our guts, our intuition, sees what our eyes cannot see, hear what our ears cannot hear, touch what our touch cannot feel, taste what our tongue cannot taste and smell what our nose cannot smell. Then it whispers to us its suggestion, like Jiminy Cricket to Pinocchio.

Our hearts are given to us as a gift of feelings and compassion. It is there to keep us in check, to keep us human. It lets us know whether we're being humane in our decision making. How do we feel about the decision at hand and its impact to the people around us?

Our brains are given to us as a gift of logic and intellect. We are able to reason cause and effect, have deductive reasoning, and have critical thinking skills. It is there to deduce the logical decision that must be made given a series of facts.

Separately, they can help us make decisions. But seldom there are problems in the real world that are purely intuitive, emotional or logical. Most if not all life's problems have aspects of logic, intuition and emotion. If we simply take our logic and attack a problem purely academically, we will surely fail to take into account the irrational human behavior (this is where our intuition helps us) and we will surely fail to take into account the emotional issues that are always present (this is where our emotion helps us).

Now that we know the three tools we have to make decisions, why don't we use it more often? This fact is used every 2 years for political elections. It is used every second in advertisements. They will tug on our heart strings and make us decide solely on our emotions. Ignoring our brain and our gut instinct.

Then there are the academics who will appeal to our logic and our logic alone. They make themselves look and sound intellectually superior to us. Then our brain says if they're smarter than us, then whatever they say must be right. We blindly follow these men of science.

We need to use these gifts and overlook the glitter and flash. We need to use these three gifts and do our own critical thinking. Are these people right, logically? Are they compassionate and are they emotionally intelligent enough to do the right thing? Does my gut say these people are to be trusted?

Let's rise above what other people tell us. Rise above what other people expect of us. We are strong, intelligent, and beautiful men and women of this world. We are one, yet we are many. Each of our individual is worth more than what we give ourselves credit for. Start valuing ourselves, think on our own, be aware of who we are, not what other people expect of us and not what they say we are.