What happens when we overthink

What happens when we overthink?

Did you ever think about what effect overthinking has on us?

Like when we overthink a lot about every situation even a mere situation , how it effect us ?

Okay, okay. Before you start overthinking about this too, let me tell you a story.

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So, The story is about a 60 years old man - Let's Call him Mr. John.

Mr. John was waiting for train sitting on a seat of Railway Station, his face was glowing with happiness.

And There was a solid reason for his happines.

Today, he was going for a solo trip after convincing his children and, more importantly, himself.

Finally, after years he was going to travel alone.

He is waiting for train when suddenly another train reached at platform and his gaze reached to man, who was exiting the train, he was almost same age of Mr. John.

The Man foot slipped and fall down on the station.

After few minutes, Mr. John's train also reached at station and he took his window seat.

But All the happiness on his was nowhere to seen now.

His mind was continously filled with many thoughts, He was now filled with fear and started overthinking.

Overthinking about the situation he had witnessed.

After seeing the man falling down, he was putting himself in the man's situation.

His mind was filled with many ifs.

What if that situation happens with him too?

What if he also fell down while exiting from the train?

While everyone else was enjoying their journey and watching train passing the beautiful places with awestruck views, he was over thinking about that situation.

Not enjoying the beautiful scenery , which was the reason he decided to travel by train.

Finally, after hours Mr. John reached his destination and when the train was about to stop, He was even more afraid.

Slowly, he reached at the door and just like that he easily exited the train.

He sat down on one of the seats on the platform, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath.

The journey that he started to enjoy and refresh himself had only made him tired.

While sitting on the seat, he start to think about how he lost his beautiful journey just cause of over thinking and keep regretting.

He wished he could go back there and change it, He become so disappointed not wanting to do anything anymore.

So Guys, What do you think we understood through Mr. John's journey?

Let me put some point in points —

1. Live in the present — Mostly, because of event going to happen that some time even is uncertain We forgot to live in present and keep over thinking about it.

Not realizing we are wasting our present on something that hasn't happened or might never happen , not enjoying the present which is filled with beautiful moments just because of over thinking about some uncertain moments.

2.We keep thinking about problem —Mostly when something happened or we think will happen in future, We keep thinking about the problem.

Several questions kept roaming in our mind.

Like , Why that happened?,  Can I change the past?

Or, if we consider Mr. John's situation, when we start overthinking due to an event that hasn't happened or that we think might happen in the future.

In that situation we keep thinking about the problem and keep getting fear about it.

And it's just problem after problem in our minds.

3. Not focusing on solution — As I said in 2nd point we just keep thinking about the problem instead of focusing on solutions.

Taking Mr. John's story in consideration, he just keep thinking about the problem and getting fear about it.

Instead he could think about solution, As solution he could ask someone to help for getting down from the train.

Listen, Over Thinking about the problem will not change anything But thinking or finding about the solution will change a lot.

4. Regretting about the past — As sitting on seat, Mr. John again start thinking about how he lost his journey because of over thinking and doing another mistake.

just like we do , if something happens or when we overthink about something and that didn't happen.

we start to think about how we wasted or loss something because of over thinking.

And That's another mistake we do, Without realising, we start overthinking, doing exact same think we regretted .

That's all for today and I just want to say, " YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GET ANYTHING IF YOU'RE OVER THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING YOU CAN'T CHANGE, BUT IF YOU CAN CHANGE IT, WORK ON IT'S SOLUTION INSTEAD OF OVETHINKING ABOUT It.