To Overthink Is To Err

In Kashmir's screen-driven world, overthinking is everywhere.

- Faizaan Bashir

To think is human, but to err and reflect is OK. To rectify and improve is normal, but to factor in the probable unfolding of events is smart.

To consider the constituent details of a big project sounds brilliant, but to slay time remaining stuck in the over-analysis of a personal and professional dilemma translates into abnormality, and dysfunction.

And if the structure of the overthinking cap we don is fat, the cloudy response we produce then should not be a shocker at all.

The world today is swarming with concerned earthlings. It's worried about the immediate future, anxious about the medium-to long-term prospects, haunted by the past, broken by people, disturbed by an ant moving here and there, and by the unusual dripping of water from a crooked tap.

We dig our own grave when the tiniest details, upon rumination, raise their esoteric, shaking us from within. The subatomic-level excisional operation we operate on our thoughts every day leaves us bleeding and bruised.

Some may romanticize this pathological concern as nothing less than a spark twinkling from the heavens above: an otherworldly gift that only a few possess.

Little do they know that this habit creates a scaffold against their own sanity, blurring everything.

This intellectual act of scratching and scratching thin air becomes our only forte. It's the only mastery we have polished over time.