intuition

after almost two decades of wishing i had magical powers, it took me 21 years to figure out the sixth sense.

it's not ESP that i'm referring to. it's something more like being cognizant of your gut instinct.

in the past, it was about things like which team would win the basketball game, or which candidate would win the election. but i didn't become consciously aware of this gut instinct until my classmate wrote about it in our creative nonfiction class. after that, i realized that becoming more attuned to this sixth sense helped me find direction under stress. sometimes, it's as dumb and trivial as feeling the need to dress nice that day, because your sixth sense is hinting to you that you'll cross paths with someone to impress. sometimes, it's about an inner calmness that seems irrational in the face of other people's panicking. people might be flipping out about things going wrong, but deep inside there's that feeling that things will turn out right in the end.