Torn

Why do people constantly tell you to follow your heart, when it always leads to places you don't want to be?

At least, people tell me it's somewhere I don't want to be.

I'm so torn by what I'm told I should do, and what I feel in my heart, it's driving me crazy. Who knows better? Which would be best for me?

My friends and I don't have the same priorities. We don't look for the same things, we don't have the same standard.

Perhaps it's to late for me to follow my heart, perhaps I screwed up by being to hesitant, perhaps I just wasn't enough, but shouldn't I take the chance? Shouldn't I see where my heart takes me?

Or should I do as I've done for the better part of my life, and do what my friends think I should do?

What can I say, I'm torn.