Thursday, 12 April 2018

Paralysis By Over-Analysis


As I was scrolling down through my camera roll, I happened to come across an old picture of me and two of my best friends from fifth grade. The picture was of the time when we received our scholar badges. Lit up faces, wide smile and teeth out like crescent moon. Arms wrapped around each other as if we would never let each other go. It seemed like forever. It was literally the best feeling ever. Reminiscing about that time, a tingling feeling grew inside me. Then I happened to see something in the background, I don't remember what, but it aroused my curiosity. It made me zoom into that picture. Something which grabbed my attention but *sighs* took away that tingling feeling of excitement. So I zoomed and zoomed and zoomed till a point came and everything became blurry and so very unclear.  
Suddenly I came up with this perception that like I zoomed into a picture just to see something so very irrelevant but the picture lost its focus and became blurry, similarly we sometimes overthink about things that hardly matter to us and keep pondering upon them, but we don't realize that we lose focus and  derail from our real motives. So the whole purpose becomes blurry and unclear and inconsistent ideas loosen our confidence. It's good to think deep. It's good to analyse. It's good to criticize. It's good to surmise. But some things are so irrelevant, trivial and insignificant that they are not worth our time and  our mind but we still keep wondering about it and we still keep our mind busy with something so very trifling. Because of which we lose our time. Because of which we lose our mind. And in that deep thinking process we fail to notice so many significant things in our life. We ignore those little moments of joy. We disregard those things that may actually really matter to us. We lose that tingling feeling inside us. We get absorbed in those deep thoughts so badly that they make us forget about everything else. Everything else starts to seem so petty that we snub all the fun.