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Things To Get You Thinking

Are ya thinking yet? How about now?

Rachel Kessler
Jan 09, 2017
Union College - New York
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You know all those cliché quotes, memes, and GIFs about not being able to fall asleep at night because you have too much on your mind? This may just be me but everytime I see one of those I get extremely frustrated. Why you ask? Because not being able to sleep or even focus due to millions of little thoughts racing around your head is a feeling I relate to on an exponential level. But. Why does no one ever take the time to list some of those thoughts? Why at the end of reading those cliché quotes, memes, and GIFs am I left wondering what other people are thinking? Are they the same as the things that distract me or keep me up at night or am I just insane and completely alone?

Personally, mine span from stressing about an upcoming exam to trying to remember that Spongebob episode I referenced earlier.

So. In hopes of being relatable to someone other than that thing I see everyday in the mirror, here are some of my little things. That stress me out, make me think, make me question everything, and keep me up.

1. Does my dog actually understand me when I talk or is that just something I am imagining?

2. Am I going to develop the "cabin fever" that everyone at Union talks about? What are the symptoms and do they sell the antidote at Reamer? Is it contagious? Should I wear a mask?

3. Do boy brains and girl brains work completely differently? Is there any evidence to support this?

4. What books can I read that will change my life?

5. Does one's life have the ability to be changed? Do people change, or just their circumstances?

6. Will I be friends with the people I am friends with now in 10 years?

7. Will I starve at West tomorrow or will they have something decent?

8. What if all the people that hate me secretly love me, and those who love me, hate me?

9. How many times will math make me cry this term?

10. Is anyone else thinking any of this stuff? *help*

There it is, some deep, stupid, and confusing thoughts that make me think. Incase anyone out there wanted a strangely intimate look into my mind, here it is.

Sincerely,

Someone who obviously doesn't get much peaceful rest


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