Overthinking: The art of creating new problems out of ones that never existed in the first place – Anonymous
Why do you overthink?
My friend asked me this question, and it really got me thinking about why I do it in the first place.
I replied:
Mhm I guess I overthink because of my past… All the experiences I’ve gone through, all the hardships, I guess they’ve made me think like nothing good is going to happen… And well, I guess I overthink because I’m scared that I’m going to go through all of it again sometime in the future… Overthinking isn’t just worrying about the “what if’s” for me.. Overthinking for me, is me worrying that all the bad things that happened to me before will happen to me again… And I guess, thinking about everything makes me a lot more worried about the present and the future… It feels like my past has more control over me than I have over it… Ik I can’t change anything, but yeah… I guess I overthink because I’m scared the past will repeat itself…
But what’s the point of overthinking? I ask myself this question each time when I’m not going through something, but in reality, it’s become like second nature to me. My natural response to unfamiliarity and change is to overthink each and everything that happens. Instead of looking at things as what they are, I overthink things in the light of my past experiences, and I find the worst in every situation. I create new problems out of ones that never existed in the first place.
And that isn’t the worst bit about it.
I’m stuck in the past, knowing it’s the present. But when I look to my future, all I see is a reflection of my past. Stuck in time, my body is in a different period.