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The Brain Of An Overthinker
My rambling thoughts…
It’s the thoughts swimming around your head at around 1000 miles an hour, the ones that refuse to stop and let you see them, that give you the biggest anxiety. I always assumed it was the worries I could envisage right in front of me, those obvious ones where it looked like that all that could go wrong, held me back.
I never stopped to consider slowing down my mind long enough to read what lay beyond the worries; those confident thoughts that told me I could do anything I wanted, be the person I wanted, have the things I needed in my life.
I would worry so much about the basic ’99 problems’ in front of me, but yet I failed to see the million possibilities lurking away in the background noise that is my mind.
It takes a second. A second to realise that what you failed to believe in is what you needed to believe in A second to understand that the moments you lost worrying could have been moments spent gaining everything. Prosperity in life is not based on how much you have in the world, at least, not for me, it’s the journey you take that leads you to that prosperity. Prosperity gained through confidence and hard work is better than prosperity gained through ease of life.
The appreciation for factors in your life that hinder you may seem to start out as resentment, but as…
