A close friend of mine noted to me recently that I’ve been thinking too much. And I even received a similar remark while chatting with my sis yesterday. I think they are right; I tend to think too much about things in general, mainly too much forward and sometimes things about the past. Sometimes I tend to overanalyze too.It is absolutely all right to think a bit ahead about things we are doing and projecting the different possibilities of each step ahead. But sometimes we couldn’t control our little but complicated mind and thus starting to build a trap for ourselves with all sorts of possibilities. Then all of a sudden, things become magnified and we begin to fear certain outcomes from our perceptions of those possibilities. Now even though the true outcome may not be what we were thinking; we have already let the fear haunted us and left us in turmoil. What is the point of thinking too much if we can’t even predict what the next step is? And then there are times I find myself making my brain overanalyzing matters. I just realize this is only making the matters more complicated than they are in reality. And worse still there is likelihood to bring disturbance to our emotions when we begin to perceive about the negative sides of things in our mind. Is this going to help us at all, no? It’ll just make us worry more and not able to enjoy our current activities. We may even become insomniac. And mind you, this is how depression starts too.
What about thinking about the past? I admit sometimes I do look back about certain things in the past but I don’t tend to do that often now. Why? It is very easy to be swept by the wave of sadness and regret. And it is pretty difficult to move away from that gluey stage.
It is good to make our brain work. But we have to make sure it is used appropriately in proper situations. Sometimes we just have to drop our thinking caps. We plan, but not too much. Be prepared, but not worrying. Enjoy the nostalgic moments, but not mourning about the past. Hah that's right; that’s the way to go!
♥ every page of my imagination
