Overthinkers & subtypes
Thinking is a process. It’s a chemical reaction that happens in the brain with respect to which Overthinking is a Chemical Turmoil.
Sitting back and nonchalantly sipping my tea, what else can I do on a pretty rainy Sunday evening than to engage myself on the memories that I have coined together of my not so eventful past.
Yes, I’m a thinker, mind you not just any thinker, am an Overthinker.I just add perfection to my thinking abilities by overdoing it, you see revisions matters.
Likewise, I have come across few people who are overthinkers but of different sorts.
Well, to start I haven’t stopped overthinking even though I might pass sarcastic comments on it (actually I have found new strategies to gain control over it,which is working pretty well). On the other hand being an active member of this clan I personally have never found any positive outcomes at the end of it.The thought process have always left me with What if’s and Maybe’s, further helping me improvise my dilemma into something that never actually existed.
Thinkers are everywhere,we all tend to dwell in our thoughts once in awhile, and thanks to the pandemic stricken pause, overthinking has become a quotidian chore to some of us.
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If I had to categorise people as types of overthinkers they might end up in these following categories:
1. The Past Dwellers: People here belong nowhere else other than in their past. Here, they are more into what they could have done or said than what they can actually do.They have learnt from their mistakes but they just keep going back with all the regret in a hope to find a way out of it.
2. The Future Gazers:With their present day not even ended,these ambitious creatures think on something way ahead of time only to worry about it later.They are concerned on everything that is yet to come.Anxious;that’s the word for them.They make stories in their own head’s on how and what could happen based on their actions. In short they are the script writers of the plot that didn’t even exist.
3. The Silent Thinkers: Shrewd in their approach,they read in between lines.They observe while their brain works like an fuming coal. Their eyes are in constant analysis of their surroundings and they tend to get into other people’s thoughts and try to ascertain what might be going in their head’s.
4. The Emotional Fool: They are a bundle of empathy. They empathize alot more than they sympathize. You might be the one who is hurt but tears would be shed by them. These people are the purest soul’s out there. They think with their heart’s. They don’t fit in here,but their empathy surely makes it to the list.
5. The Seekers: These are people who have only one thing in their mind which is," What will they think about me if I do this?" Infact they sacrifice their own happiness to just the thought of other people’s opinions .They seek their happiness in somebody or something else.
To conclude, thinking is a process. It’s a chemical reaction that happens in the brain with respect to which overthinking is a Chemical Turmoil.
With over a billion neurons in the human brain I wonder how many of it is needed when an Overthinker indulges himself in THINKING!!!
