organized confusion

These are only some of the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Last week I was having discussions with people at all stages of their life about all sorts of different relationships that envoke the heart.

People can confuse lust for love.
People can money for happiness.
People can confuse a warm conversation with, that person wants to be with me.
People can confuse the value of wanting/needing a close relationship in any form with a close friend of the opposite sex and end up loving them.
People can confuse someone that is so different from what they know or have known, in to the ideal person.
People can confuse the best thing that has ever happened to them, into the best thing that WILL ever happen to them.

And with all these confusions, we're so certain sometimes that what we believe is right, that it doesn't really matter that we're confused about it. Because being confused doesn't always have a right or wrong answer, it's more about knowing you're confused and knowing what is you feel in your gut. People know in their gut sometimes that things can't work out or won't work out for a particular reason, but a lot of people overlook these things for the present moment. And they know its there.

Everyday I try to do a gut check on many things to make sure that I'm not confused about life. But its hard because it takes a little more confidence in yourself than I can say I have at the moment to say that I'm doing the right things.