What should win: sense or desires?

I often can out think a problem, and I know the right thing to do, but instead I follow my heart.
Sometimes, you just gotta let the wookie win.

I think we all need a good balance of following both our desires and what makes sense. It’s best when our desires link up with the things that make sense, but that’s not always the case.

Probably for the most part, sense should win over. But it never hurts to follow your desires on those occasions where sense just won’t win out.

I’m big on logic and common sense. But once in a while you just have to say screw it and go for it and indulge your animal side. If you never let it go and get wild, you’ll never know how far you can go. It’s worth it once in a while.

For me, there is a brief battle where it seems like desire is going to win. But in the end, sense always wins because I don’t put much stock in desire.

I let desire, alone, lead me when I was young. It always f*cked me over.

Now, sense is the most important thing when it comes to entering a relationship, or continuing a relationship or making a decision about anything, really.

I’m not saying that you shouldn’t have feelings, deep passionate feelings for someone, you must, but if your sense tells you that you’ve fallen for someone who you know if going to hurt your, or embarrass you (or your family) or you’ve fallen for someone who is a thief or a liar or a con-man or you’ve fallen for someone who’s demonstrated that they have a decided lack of compassion for other people, or who show little interest in the things and beliefs and ideas that you hold dear, run for your life! Don’t go in thinking that you can change that person. You’ll get f*cked over. You can’t change other people or make them feel what they don’t feel. You can only change your behavior and your choices.

Also, learn now, while you are young, not to believe most of the bullshit lines that guys people tell you, to try to get you to do things that are not in your best interest. And learn not to believe the bullsh*t that you tell yourself to try to justify getting involved with people that will ultimately f*ck you over.

Love passionately, but don’t allow yourself to get involved with people who will do you harm, no matter how charming they might seem, no matter how beautiful they look, no matter how much they seem to promise you. Learn to look beyond the bullsh*t.

Sometimes, especially in matters of the heart, I seem to ignore sense and listen to desire.

Both with the edge going to the sense side. Bought a framing nailer the other day I really did not need but I wanted. Been used to swinging a 20oz hammer all along when I did frame, which isn’t that often so, I suppose I could have saved the money and done without but I wanted to find out how it would feel to not have a dead shoulder and arm the next day. It worked out as hoped but in the end I still would have survived without. Both sides win this time.

It really depends. But in my life experiences, I would have to say, I probably followed sense about 95 percent of the time. Out of the 5, only 1 percent ever worked out great. That was when I left my family and home to run off with my husband who I still love and am married too.
The other 4 percent was a failure and I should’ve listened to sense.
At my age now, I think sense is at 100 percent. But it could be because I certainly am not looking for an affair nor do I need anything else to make me happy. I believe that real happiness comes from within.

While I am a person of the heart and usually run on feeling, I think at some point in life we should let sense take over otherwise we find ourselves on the losing side constantly! Perfect would be a combination of both, but not easy to achieve!

If desire is want and common sense is what we should do then I’d say generally desire wins. We do the things we “should” that we “ought to” do for the things we want. I admit that there is the occasional exception to “the rule” though.