The Heart Wants What It Wants. NOT !

 In an interview with Time Magazine in August of 1992, Woody Allen in justifying his relationship and subsequent marriage to his step daughter  was quoted as saying: “The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to those things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that”.

I am not so sure we should be quoting anything by Woody Allen. The mere fact that he said it should give us pause to question it. The “heart” is a magnet for feelings; feelings that may change with the prevailing emotional winds of our lives. It does happen that from time to time we will experience that overwhelming “chemistry”, that “spark” that makes us euphoric in the presence of another. No matter how long you have been in any committed relationship you would be foolish to think this will not happen to you. Be honest, it happens to all of us. The question is: What will you do with “feelings” you have no control over with your “actions” which you have every control over?

If you are Woody Allen, you behave inappropriately, have an affair with your step-daughter, destroy the relationship you have with your wife, have your wife divorce you, and then you marry your step-daughter. Yeah, this makes total sense. The heart wants what the heart wants and there is no logic to it.