Over Thinking

I like my creative brain, I really do. I love how stories come out of the ether. Mundane situations quickly transform into characters or scenes for me, inspiring new ideas for a story. This leads me to wondering about all sorts of out comes to seemingly typical situations. For example, seeing a man at the gym walking on the treadmill. Most just acknowledge the fact and move on. My brain starts thinking of him as a character. What brought him to the gym? Is he looking for an escape? Is he training for a marathon OR is he a spy in training and really needs to work on his cardio? My brain tends to constantly do this. While great for novels and short stories, it can be overwhelming. Sometimes, I find myself taking situations in my life and creating worrying futures. Thus I find myself panicking over realities that aren’t real.

I find my self currently being defeated by these imagined futures. For whatever reason, these false futures feel real. This leads to the struggle being a hard one for me. But, I am fighting back. I am living in the present, not worrying about false futures. I whisper to myself that worrying about possibilities is pointless. I know it might sound like a cheesy approach, but if it works it works.

We can plan for possibilities but we must not be consumed by this over thinking. Remember, you are enough and you can get through anything that life throws at you. It might knock you down for a spell, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is getting back up and proving to the world that it can’t keep you down.