ADDRESS OR DISMISS?
As the sun goes down in stochastic colours and the rain falls softly on the window pane, you run your fingers along the fogged glass. You doodle, write alphabets and then wipe it off with your hands. It's so still outside, the day has come to an end, people are returning home from work, kids have finished with their play. But the thoughts running in your head don't come to a rest. They've been walking in and out of your mind throughout the day. But you chose to do nothing about them.
They started the minute you opened your eyes to a bright sunny morning. But you closed your eyes again to blink them away. You showered your speculations away, pat them dry. Poured a cup of coffee over your deliberations. And chose to do nothing about them.
You drove to your workplace the same way as your mind raced - broke signals, almost killed a dog. You heard half the instructions at work because half of your mind was preoccupied, and delivered half of that because of the same.
But you chose to do nothing about them.
Because there's so much to do already, so much to establish that there is no time to address the thoughts that might actually be hampering your growth. These unsaid expressions, most often, affect those around us more than they affect us. But we confine ourselves to a room, absorbing ourselves with our needs and wants, while the others, tired of waiting, quietly close their doors on us.
Thoughts are always tangled in knots. But knots can loosen if you pull one right string. To know which string, you need to think. But we know that this action itself might just create a larger web. Getting caught in this web of too many thoughts brings about unwanted anxieties and hypothetical situations, which is quite unnecessary.
Which brings us to a question no one has still been able to answer - exactly how much thinking is over thinking?
And how much is essential?
What to address...and what to dismiss?
As the sun goes down in stochastic colours and the rain falls softly on the window pane, you run your fingers along the fogged glass. You doodle, write alphabets and then wipe it off with your hands. It's so still outside, the day has come to an end, people are returning home from work, kids have finished with their play. But the thoughts running in your head don't come to a rest. They've been walking in and out of your mind throughout the day. But you chose to do nothing about them.
They started the minute you opened your eyes to a bright sunny morning. But you closed your eyes again to blink them away. You showered your speculations away, pat them dry. Poured a cup of coffee over your deliberations. And chose to do nothing about them.
You drove to your workplace the same way as your mind raced - broke signals, almost killed a dog. You heard half the instructions at work because half of your mind was preoccupied, and delivered half of that because of the same.
But you chose to do nothing about them.
Because there's so much to do already, so much to establish that there is no time to address the thoughts that might actually be hampering your growth. These unsaid expressions, most often, affect those around us more than they affect us. But we confine ourselves to a room, absorbing ourselves with our needs and wants, while the others, tired of waiting, quietly close their doors on us.
Thoughts are always tangled in knots. But knots can loosen if you pull one right string. To know which string, you need to think. But we know that this action itself might just create a larger web. Getting caught in this web of too many thoughts brings about unwanted anxieties and hypothetical situations, which is quite unnecessary.
Which brings us to a question no one has still been able to answer - exactly how much thinking is over thinking?
And how much is essential?
What to address...and what to dismiss?
nupur... impressed!!!
ReplyDeleteespecially web part... iknw i do that,... avoid pulling the string, cz i knw its jst goin to be a larger web....!! :)
n ur description in the beginning... :) :)
and i loved the back ground too :)
ReplyDeleteHmm.. Thoughts .. keep posting ... love it!!
ReplyDeleteVery well written Nupur,though i loved last paragraph about pulling the right string to untangle a knot...! but the line 'exactly how much thinking is over thinking?' really impressed me...! in fact i too very often wonder whether its right to brood over certain very unnecessary things (which actually may not be unnecessary) .But at the same time over thinking has its own cause and effect and may have negative /positive results. In fact many of the inventions /discoveries(scientific/social/political etc) may have been result of brooding/over thinking.so one may put it in another way,sometimes over thinking may be blesing/bane in disguise.
ReplyDeleteThank u, Thank u, Thank u Resha!
ReplyDeletethank u Sanjana aka HIghness..wil try to be more regular!
ReplyDeleteHey Worthwhile, over thinking is a blessing/bane in disguise..so so true! if only we knew what to address and what to dismiss...everything would be perfectly sorted. :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, I must admit, this is awesome. Every time I read it again, I just keep relating it to times I have come across, times I have wasted my head overthinking. Overthinking small things is known as YIPS, I'm sure many of us suffer from this little known condition, such that thinking over the limit makes you anxious which ultimately makes you unable to do things correctly, which is BAD. But everything aside, I must say, that's a keen observation you have made on human behaviour! Keep thinking and writing good stuff like this.
ReplyDeleteA very nice piece. Some of us just love to think and take the unwanted stress, it has just become a part of our daily life. I have often realized that how much ever we think we end up with an unhappy decision. Hence when you have written in your article about what we should address and what we should dismiss makes perfect sense.
ReplyDeleteThank you Anirudh. it is true a lot of us suffer from this 'condition', consciously or unconsciously. And while some of us want it to stop, some just wouldn't let it go!
ReplyDeleteI think I am the latter.
Sumeet, sometimes, overthinking can lead you to a good decision as well. That's the catch - its unpredictable. When to stop and when to continue..that is the question.
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