Sometimes You Just Know

“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why. The truly valuable thing is the intuition.” – Albert Einstein

My whole life there have been times when I just Knew something. I didn’t think about it, didn’t really examine it. Doing so would have made me dwell on why I always felt so different, like an outsider. After a while it stopped happening quite so much. Then it seemed to go away altogether.

Until I moved to Savannah and Aunt Lucy reminded me that Knowing is a deep part of who I am. It’s nice to have it back. I hadn’t realized how much I missed it.

Of course Knowing is really intuition, and intuition is magical. The irony is that everyone possesses intuition to some degree. I wasn’t nearly as different as I’d thought. In fact Aunt Lucy told me most everyone has it to a great degree, but people tend to tamp it down as they grow up. We’re taught that if you can’t see it or write a proof on paper then it’s not to be trusted.

Well, I’m here to tell you: Trust it.

Go ahead. I dare you.

~Katie

p.s. Happy Full Moon!