Overthinking

          There are times when you just seem to lay in bed for what feels like an eternity. You just lay there staring blankly at the ceiling and the mind does all the work. Things that you’ve been trying to block in your mind are now making its way back. You try to close your eyes in the hopes that you’ll be able to fall asleep and your thoughts will drown in your dream. But it’s almost impossible and you find yourself tossing and turning in bed.

         You get out of bed and grab a glass of water or milk that may help you in falling asleep. For some people though, they might be too lazy to get up because the kitchen is too far away or they might be too scared to walk into a dark kitchen. But either way, nothing seems to help you. You become more frustrated as the seconds turn to minutes and the minutes turn to hours. You sigh in defeat as you lay there with nothing but your thoughts.

         You wake up the next day with dark circles below your eyes due to lack of sleep. Starting the day with your usual routine and you feel like your thoughts won’t haunt you during daylight. But you may have spoken to soon as you get into the shower. What was supposed to be a quick shower turned into a life contemplating moment. You just sit there with the water running down you body.

         We do a lot of overthinking everyday. But is it really helpful? Sometimes when we overthink, we create a problem that’s not even there in the first place, we tend to complicate things when the answer is actually so simple. It distracts us from what’s actually more important. It’s not bad to overthink because we can see and understand more things behind something, but too much overthinking kills us mentally which is actually worst than dying physically.