Don't Follow Your Heart

"Just follow your heart," my mother told me over the telephone, giving me what she called her dime-store psychology. Little did she know how many times I would come to her through the ensuing years with my sob stories of unrequited "love". Suffice it to say her well meaning advice, shared by zillions of people who subscribe to this advice of following one's heart, was not in any way, shape, or form what I needed to do. I didn't need to be told to follow my heart. I needed to be told this: Don...