Tag: philosophy

If overthinking was a sport, I would win every single time. Or so my friends tell me.

I’m famous for being unable to multitask. For example, I absolutely cannot talk and write at the same time. But, my friends/peers can. That’s the thing. They can multitask physically. I can multitask mentally. Don’t know what I’m talking about?

Okay, so basically, all overthinkers think simultaneously. It’s hard to describe. Like, right now, I’m overthinking about overthinkers and how I’m one of them, while also overthinking about school and academia, while also overthinking about supernatural, while also overthinking about poetry ideas, while also overthinking about the lock-down, while over thinking about one direction, etc. You get the drill. With overthinkers, you can’t just overthink one thing at a time, you have to overthink about multiple things at the same time.

And that’s why overthinkers worry a lot. Give me anything, any situation, I can worry to the point it gets ridiculous. Every word someone says, overthinkers can analyze them to the point it wouldn’t make sense to a normal person.

For instance, I keep thinking about this one phrase my English teacher said, “Think correctly.” It bugs me so much, ’cause English is a language of interpretation, no matter how literal or ridiculous, and there is no “correct” way of thinking. Ethical, yes. Correct, no. And I can bet you, my classmates probably don’t even remember that my English teacher even said something like that.

I asked my friends, “when you think of me, what’s the first thing that comes to your brain?”

And one of them said and I quote, “You are a worrier. You may not like to or maybe you do, I don’t know but you worry. About the most trivial to the most signigicant of things.”

Another one of them said, “You are an overthinker. You think a lot, analyze every single thing. Also when people say that they get the other side/story of the situation, they don’t. But you do. And you understand people. And people don’t realize it but you do understand them. ” To this, I asked her, “Then, how come no one particularly likes me?” She said, “You understand them, the truth about them. Some people don’t want to hear it. Also, understanding people doesn’t mean that you connect with them. They might not like the fact that you understand them.”

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Dear normal people who don’t understand overthinkers,

we never realize that we’re overthinkers. Until…we do. And then, we overthink the fact that we’re overthinkers. (People who claim to be overthinkers usually aren’t. ‘Cause ovethinking is not as cool as some like to think.)

We’ve been told we worry a lot, we over analyze the tiniest of things, etc.

If we meet a new person, we analyze their clothes, their most evident quality, their behavior and body language, while thinking of what to say, how to stand, some good jokes, while thinking of statistical probability, physics, poetry, the universe, while thinking of that one embarrassing moment that happened years ago, while obsessing over music and aesthetics, while having philosophical revelations, while thinking of what to wear. (Disclaimer: THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.)

Yep. That’s the life.

People think it’s something we can stop. As if, it’s not a part of us, just like our eyes or our nose. People think that we just have to stop thinking. If it were as simple as that, overthinkers would not exist. Sure, we can choose what to think, but we can’t choose how much we think.

Overthinking is something we can’t help. The tiniest of words, the tiniest of intentions have to be analyzed or we won’t find peace. And people don’t realize how something they did unintentionally eats away at us. Some times, we’re honestly surprised that our heads don’t burst from the overload of thoughts.

There are things that we’re over emotionally and yet we still overthink them. There are also things we’re not over emotionally and we overthink them too. Ovethinking is not a choice.

But one thing, you can count on is that usually, when we make a statement, we have (USUALLY) thought out all sides of a scenario, even the most unlikely opinions and then shared our take on it. It’s not called being argumentative (as many teachers like to call us). It’s not called arguing for the sake of it. We like to think of it as a clash of ideas, playing around with them, finding new theories. And yes, it might get annoying, but that’s our playtime, so please bear with us.. (To be honest, school is playtime for us. True learning is done from life.)

Regards,

the overthinkers

The price you pay for being born an overthinker is being devoid of the power to truly let go. Because, what you think of, you haven’t let go of, not really.