Trust your intuition

As Halloween nears, let’s talk intuition. The inner voice that sees so much more than our eyes. You come across someone who seems friendly and a good conversationalist. There’s no reason to feel alarmed, yet your sixth sense is screaming at you to stay away. Something’s off about that person but you can’t tell exactly what it is. You leave a meeting early because of that inner voice nudging you to get out of there. Turns out, ten minutes later, a tragedy struck.

What is intuition? Nothing spiritual – a product of evolution, maybe just being lucky, a confluence of coincidences, or God guiding us, particularly in crucial moments?

You’ll get as many answers as you can imagine, depending who you ask.

It’s the same with job interviews. People often forget that it’s not just your potential employer profiling you. It’s also the other way around – you are finding out things about your potential employer. We always give something away, no matter how careful we are. Sure, job interviews are almost always carefully scripted and both sides know it, but you can take a peek behind the curtain if you know where to look. Just as interviewers ask you questions, it’s good to remember that you, too, can ask them questions to find out if there are any major red flags. Sure, you’re the one after a job, but it doesn’t mean the interviewer holds all the cards. And, in my opinion, that whisper inside us, that feeling telling us something is off about that guy, well, we ought to listen to it. More often than not, you’re going to find out that you’ve dodged a bullet. Who knows, maybe in more ways than one.

Same with relationships and speed dating. Now, it doesn’t mean to use the inner sense as an excuse to avoid going to job interviews and so on. It just means to be attuned to our inner voice. It can see much more than our conscious mind. I like movies and TV series that portray this well.

Take, for example, the TV series, ”From.” I’m not a fan, to be honest, but I like the evil humans with Joker-esque smiles walking around town and stalking the main characters. These humans don’t seem threatening if you don’t know who, or what, they are, but they happen to be extremely dangerous. They kill, torture, and maim.

A female cop found herself in the town with these smiling humans and was warned to stay away from them. An authority figure, she dismissed the warnings. When she came across the smiling humans and realized their true nature, a reversal of roles happened. The authority figure became the damsel-in-distress running away and shooting at the creatures, to no effect.

Point being, when someone (even if that someone isn’t exactly reliable) repeatedly warns you not to go somewhere or to avoid someone, even if it sounds stupid, funny and downright ridiculous, don’t dismiss it outright and keep that warning in mind. It’s also possible you’re being manipulated to stay away from someone for whatever reason, but it’s best to err on the side of caution.

When someone tells me you gotta trust people, my mind conjures up driving. If you’re an avid driver, then you know you can’t trust every other driver out there. Sometimes, you need to think for yourself and for them. You can’t just blindly trust everyone on the road, unless you want to end up in a ditch, or worse. It’s the same with people. Some people are like responsible drivers, some are crappy drivers, some are deceptive drivers who – say – show you they are turning left, and, in fact, they turn right. And so on. Sometimes, someone seems like a responsible driver and you think to yourself, ”Yeah, he’s not gonna turn now, he can see me, I have priority. Well, too bad for ya, cause guess what? He turns and you don’t have enough time to stop, hitting him. Hours of walking, talking, and possibly a hospital stay and a court case on the horizon. Maybe morgue, but that’s permanent. All of that could’ve been avoided if you’d just been a bit cynical and watched what the guy was doing rather than just assuming he’s going to behave just like you. Listened to that voice that whispered, ”Hey, something’s off about this guy, even though you have priority, let him go first.”

Indeed, if God (disguised, for example, as a vengeful Chinese psychic) wanted to punish someone or troll someone for Halloween, He would probably send them to an all-American town in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by smiling, sadistic simulacra of human beings. Just for some time. Not forever.

On a serious note, I’ve written 93 blog posts so far, one of which is still on the popular posts list. I believe it would benefit my readers to see who I am and how I sound and not just words on the screen and a photo that doesn’t really mean much.

Press Corner, linked below, is a popular program on Polish State TV – English edition. Indeed, the English-language channel is called TVP World and its aim is to inform foreigners about what’s going on in Poland. Four, sometimes three, well-established journalists, experts and analysts discuss important issues impacting the globe and try to predict what’s next for Poland, the region, and the world, and how the three interlink. The hosts don’t shy away from asking hard questions. Israel is mentioned, but the main focus – no surprise there, given the proximity of the war to Poland – is on Ukraine and Russia.

Press Corner where I was a guest was hosted by Benjamin Lee – who’s also the host of ”Break the Fake,” an excellent program where he and his team battle Russian fake narratives with humor and sarcasm. They are doing a great job.

Speaking of, a Polish General recently said that a Russian attack on the Baltics or on Poland would mean the end of Russia and a retaliatory strike on St. Petersburg. It would be great to see Russia defeated, but this, my friends, is another example of Polish fantasy at work. Medvedev mocked the above and, sadly, this time – the drunk had a good reason. If such threats and promises were made by the U.S., they would be credible. Poland making such threats isn’t. In fact, it makes our American allies wonder what’s going on here.

A well-known Polish historian, Piotr Zychowicz, who is a pragmatic man, indirectly replied to the General: ”We attack St. Petersburg and, in response, Russia hits three Polish cities with nukes. And then, we beg NATO for help to save what’s left of Poland. And NATO’s going to say: you haven’t consulted this attack with us, you’re on your own.”

I’ve read someone’s comment on the blogs, ”When one NATO State is attacked, all NATO States are attacked and will act.” Yes, in theory. Except, each state can provide as much help as it deems appropriate. Not necessarily military action. So, a definite ”will” here is debatable, and that’s being diplomatic.

Sadly, this isn’t 1610, when Poland occupied the Kremlin for two years and even imprisoned a Russian tsar, something that Russians hate us for to this day (the ones that even know about it).

Israel is silent and then hits unexpectedly and effectively (emasculating pagers). That’s the name of the game.

Here you can see me with Jacek Żakowski, a well-known Polish journalist and, one might even venture to say, a walking legend. I invite you to have a listen. It’ll give you a better idea of who’s behind the screen. Enjoy (hopefully).

Alright, off to polishing my novel. Until next time.