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Hi Zoe, I think you're capturing that conflict well! I tend to default to logic and rationality but my end game is certainty! We have a daughter that is able to leeaaan into uncertainty beyond our comfort zones! But she often finds her treasure there--and we bear the anxiety! I feel adventure beckons us; if you want something, there's gonna be that risk. Thanks for your writing, Zoe!

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Thanks for reading and responding, @justmud. I guess we‘d all like to be able to make decisions based on clear facts, but so often this is not possible. What makes the dilemma yet more daunting is all those wise guys yelling their precious wisdom at us, listen to your heart, listen to your true voice ...as if that was so plain and simple.

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no doubt; no shortage of voices! It's your voice in there whispering.

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Finding your "true self" is a tricky business that most of us aspire to. It if wasn't hard, we wouldn't be moved to write :)

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That’s right, Jill! Above all, what keeps bothering me is this inflation of big words that mean nothing, or even worse, mislead. Finding your true self, as you say, is very ambitious; first, it would help a lot if we could learn how to make a decision that’s as close to what we really want as possible. Thanks for reading, Jill!

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