Overthinking thoughts

Thoughts.

We think 50 to 70 thousand words per day,

We have a black side, a white side, and in the middle it remains gray.

It’s the middle that asks “what if,” or “I could have,”

And then the black part responds with “well, you should have.”

These thousands of words? Yes, we think them through,

But scientifically speaking, only about 3% are true.

We rip our hair out, bite our nails, and make it impossible to grip with our sweaty hands.

We go on Facebook, Twitter, or Snapchat habitually and start the beginning of ongoing rants.

Thoughts.

It’s late at night and our thoughts are racing faster than the speed of light.

12AM, 1AM, 4AM, 5AM. Why do clocks exist?!

You see your life flash before your eyes.

You hear the rooster outside.

Your annoying neighbor turns on the radio.

It’s just you and your teddy bear; now it’s time to go to sleep.

“It’s okay dear, it’s all in your head.”

I wonder if Neil Diamond likes chocolate bars, let me google that.

Why am I overthinking everything…? *falls asleep*

Thoughts.

They’ve penetrated through our skull since the day of our birth,

They’ve wrapped around our heads, hands, and our waist’s girth.

We’ve listened to them because we are docile.

These thoughts are so old that they have become scars and fossils.

Our thoughts have controlled us and have turned us into this big twirl.

Our mind then falls apart like an opened string of pearls.

We’ve stopped what we’re doing just to think and cry,

It consumes our mind within a blink of an eye.

Thoughts.

But why do our thoughts do this to us?

Is it really just all in our head?

Why does our life flash before our eyes in one second?

Why do we constantly overthink?

Is it okay to have these unwanted thoughts?

I can’t fix the past, so what do I do?

Why can’t I stop thinking about this?

Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?

Thoughts.

We ask these questions but yet no answer,

Why can’t everything be solved, why can’t they find a cure for cancer?

We want answers! We don’t want cancer!

It’s okay, be patient because there is an answer,

Get up and distract yourself, pretend you’re a dancer.

Life is too short for you to constantly be controlled by your thoughts,

Untangle yourself from your mind and get rid of those thoughts,

Let these thoughts pass by and try not to control them,

Force yourself not to control them.

It’s not easy but you have to let go at one point,

Even if your life around you is negative, look at it in a positive viewpoint:

You’re alive, you’re kicking, you’re smiling, you’re screaming,

Make your wishes a reality even if it feels like you’re dreaming.

Tell yourself you’re going to accept thoughts and learn to live day by day,

Tell yourself you’ll live in the white side and vacate out of the gray,

Remember, it’s the gray that asks you “what if, what if, what would’ve happened, what if?”

Although it’s good to have that gray side sometimes, you’d rather live away from the cliff.

Thoughts.

What should I…. NO, not anymore,

Take a deep breath slowly and count to four.

Let out all the suffocation and swing open your big ole door,

Get out of your rolly-pollie position and get up from the floor.

Put on your best bow tie and slacks, or take out your Michael Kors,

Don’t listen to your overthinking habits, even if it asks for more.

Thoughts.

You see, this is how your mind works.

You overthink a thought, and you pay extra attention to it.

It consumes you, and it starts to make you nervous, scared, sad, worried, overwhelmed, etc.

You can’t control a lot of things, so you have to learn to accept these thoughts and continue on with your life.

Thoughts are beautiful, but they can be deceitful.

Overanalyzing something can benefit you, but if you feel uneasiness in your gut, pay attention to it if you genuinely have a bad feeling about something, but if you find out it’s not true and you’re still analyzing it, let go of the thought. Words and thoughts are deceitful, but learning to accept, let go, and to carefully pay attention to them will take practice, but you can do it. Remember, only about 3% of our daily thoughts are true, and the human tends to think 50,000-70,000 words per day.

Thoughts.