That's a part of a line from the song "You Get What You Give," by the New Radicals. My heart tells me to start a battle to the death with whichever one of them wrote the song armed with baseball bats. And believe me, I would be WALKING out of there if the only thing that makes a difference in the fight is anger.Why do I hate the song? Because the idea behind it is that the world is just, and if you follow your heart everything will turn out just fine. What a crock. This isn't a just world. People are executed in our legal system for crimes they didn't commit. The criminals walk free. That doesn't sound just, does it?
Consider the case of... me. If I were to follow my heart, a lot of people would be dead. Such as the person who wrote that song. And anybody who got in my way before I killed that person. And anybody who pissed me off before and after. Eventually I'd be the last person standing on a planet with a lot of new craters and very little in the way of plants or animals. And if you believe in a just world, I must be in the right to do so.
Consider serial killers. Mightn't they be following their hearts? If they do, it must be all right to kill people, because if you're following your heart things cannot turn out badly. So if a serial killer follows his heart (they ARE mostly male) and kills someone, the person must have deserved to die.
Consider Kid Rock's "Only God Knows Why." It's sort of the same thing as the other song. He's not getting what he deserves, he says. What does he deserve? Good things? I'm guessing here, but he might be following his heart and finding that he's not getting good things in return. Should he get whatever he wants? Well then, I should get whatever I want as well because I think that I am in the right as much as he thinks that he is.
If this were true, the universe should just reach out and squish Kid Rock, because that is what my heart desires. Oh yes, I listen to my heart from time to time, when it's not leading me to homicide or property damage. It usually ends up hurting someone's feelings.
So for those of you who think we should all just follow our hearts because the world is ultimately just, you might reconsider. It definitely would end in some sort of bloodshed.
Aren't you glad I don't follow my heart?
And now that I think about it, this ties into a belief I hold that KARMA DOESN'T EXIST! Because if it did, this would be a just world, wouldn't it?
P.S.: Thanks to CRACKpot for pointing out the silliness of Kid Rock bitching about fame on his first major album.