You don’t need to understand.

I’m telling you: Really, you don’t.
I mean hang up the phone.

If something is eating at you, making your skin crawl, keeping you up at night or unable to focus at work or in your relationships: You don’t need to understand.

You don’t need to find the logic. You’re allowed to say, “I don’t know why, but this doesn’t feel right. It just doesn’t. So I’m going to go with that.”

Big thinkers tend to have a hard time allowing themselves to simply say, “I just don’t understand”.
And I have heard from them how exhilarating it can be, in those moments when they are struggling to find a logical connection, to be able to exclaim,
“I don’t know why that is the way it is.
I can’t see why. I don’t understand, and maybe I never will. Maybe I just need to learn to live with that.”

Sometimes it’s even less involved than that, 
“I don’t know, and I don’t care. It’s just not working for me, so I’m out.”

Finding an explanation may bring you momentary peace, may set your mind at ease from the “this doesn’t make any sense” portion —but sometimes trying to find the right words is not worth staying somewhere you don’t want to be.
After all, who are those words for? Chances are, they aren’t for you, since if you could just quietly listen inward, you would find all your answers. Your body is trying to speak to you, and sadly many times we fail to listen. We have been taught not to.

We often act like we need to justify our decisions to somebody else. It is our job to remind ourselves that we don’t.

Listening to yourself is honouring your inner wisdom. Your gut, literally, your belly, your body, is giving you signals to run. It may be that the situation reminds you of another where you were not treated properly, or of something else that led you down a path where you didn’t want to be. 
Perhaps of a situation where you put someone else’s needs before your own. Where you decided, inadvertently, to shrink because standing up tall would have gotten you in trouble.
And your sweet body is still finding its way through its own healing, perhaps still unable to put all that into words.

But your stomach is speaking, and it’s saying: Enough.