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The Over-Thinker's Playbook

The struggle of being a functioning over-thinker

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To think or not to think? To stress or not to stress? To sleep, or to continue to think and stress? These questions have simple answers, yet performing the actions required of each can truly seem impossible at times. While some people are very decisive, I am not. With an indecisiveness that extends to my most menial tasks, such as spending many, many minutes deciding whether or not to wear a sweatshirt in the morning, or if I'd rather listen to the radio or the aux cord, it's safe to say that I'm entirely unable to decide until the last possible second. If I haven't decided by then, I always have the coin flip app on my phone.

Some more instances where I (and the typical over-thinker) fail to make decisions, and/or fail to stop stressing include:


Important decisions

There comes times where we have to make life-changing decisions. In these cases, most people spend a great amount of time thinking about their next step. With me, it still takes doublethe amount of time and triple the lack of sleep as these people. Thankfully, there's coffee.

Texting people back

One reason is because I procrastinate. Another reason is because I hate to text people back. But if it's a text about anything remotely important, I usually do what any right-minded person should do, and save it for hours later, when I've thought about it (or avoided thinking about it) some more.


Weather shenanigans

These days are the days where jackets, jeans, shorts, and T's can all be worn on the same day. Most people decide what to wear based on how they're feeling in the moment, but I like to plan ahead. How will I feel in class? Do I have space in my bag for a sweatshirt? Is it as hot outside as it is in my dorm? All of these are important, essential questions for a functioning over-thinker.

Schoolwork

I spend an equal amount of time stressing about my assignments as I spend doing them--especially papers, tests, or anything of that nature, when there's a great expanse of time before the due date.


Awkward situations

Saying something stupid? Falling up the stairs? This is fairly common (at least for me). But as an over-thinker, certain situations stay in my head much longer than they should. On days when life seems to be one gigantic, awkward situation, you can depend on me to be thinking about what's been going on, probably for the whole duration of the day, and a few days after that.


What's never going to happen

I'd be lying if I said I didn't think and stress exceedingly about situations and events that are highly unlikely to ever happen or take place, as many of them only take place in my head.

Cravings

This one may hit closest to home—as an over-thinker, when I crave something, I continue to crave it, and cease to think about it until I attain it. Typical cravings for me include: poor quality Chinese food, pizza, Lana Del Rey, coffee, dogs and cats, and sleep. Over-thinkers allow their cravings to rule their life decisions until satisfying them, thus cementing to importance of one of my favorite life mantras: "TREAT YO SELF."


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