Zen and the Art of Overanalyzing - Unwarranted Advice

I’m a worrier. I don’t know if it comes from paying too much attention or too little, but something in me causes small details to become big deals. I can make a mountain out of a molehill like the best of them, after all, it just takes a low angle.

But in my overanalyzing, I can frequently find peace in a situation. Worried someone is mad at you? Well. If you reread the string of obscure texts they sent you thirty times, you’ll get a pretty good feel for what might have been on their mind when they typed it out. And judging by when they typed their replies, they probably were quite busy. So, really it can’t be you, it’s just something they’re dealing with.

I’ll admit it, that only works about 20 percent of the time. The other 80? It’s more or less of a panic, but in that panic, my energy is at least directed toward a solvable problem, and if I have a solution available, then all that worry I’ve got built up in my head at least has an outlet.

If you bundle up a hose for too long, you’re going to burst a pipe or the hose itself. But if you let it loose, well, just make sure you’re aiming at the lawn.

Or you know, you can just turn the hose off. Which is the healthy thing to do. In most cases, there’s no reason to worry, but I guess sometimes you just can’t help it.

What pulls me out of that, the most, is just maintaining perspective. Everybody has their own mind, right? And you can’t ever know what’s on theirs without asking and trusting. Which is tough, I’ll admit it!

So, here’s an opportunity to exercise this for you. I’m exhausted. I bet you couldn’t tell.

I had a series of increasingly dumb things happen to me today and have nothing else to write about and no will to force myself to come up with something.

So, if you don’t mind, this blog will end here. Feel free to read an older one you might have missed or just liked enough to read twice.

Afford me the break I won’t give myself, so that way I can just go for a run and then hopefully do nothing for a few hours.

I’m 100% okay, I’m just phoning this one in early. Thanks, I appreciate you.