Life or something like it!

  “Nothing will harm you as much as your thoughts unguarded.” –Mahatma Buddha My last blog got quite a positive response. Many people wrote to me saying that they were able to connect to it as they too tend to overthink and that it was good to know that they had company. So, what makes us over think in the first place- as far as I’ve experienced and understood life and observed people-yes, you got that right- STRESS is one of the most prominent causes of over thinking. Another major factor is the availability of too much of free time with nothing to engage one’s mind productively. Sometimes, it can be just the opposite- non availability of free time , too much to do every day can cause a different kind of over thinking. One of my dear friends wrote to me that she didn’t understand why over thinking was made to be such a monster these days- if Newton  had not indulged himself in over thinking when the apple fell on his head, we simply wouldn’t have the laws of gravi...

“To think too much is a disease”, said Fyodor Dostoyevsky  in Notes from Underground and the Double. There’s so much going on in this mind of mine- the BOOMBOX of OVERTHINKING - so many things I want to say- so many things I want to do…don’t know where to start, where to end! END? Is there ever an end? Even the moment that we die…life goes on… How to sort out one’s thoughts? How to make head or tail of life? Hamlet says- “To be or not to be”- I’m stuck at- ‘To think or not to think’! It’s become common knowledge these days that overthinking is bad, but where do you draw the line? What exactly is overthinking? How do you control it? Is it bad to have an intellectual bend of mind? Actually, do we even get to choose what kind of a mindset do we have? Don’t we all interpret things in our own ways, the way we are at the core? Don’t the same circumstances have different effects on different people? Had it been so easy to choose one’s bend of mind, wouldn’t all of us be the same? Wouldn...