Do you think too much?
By shilpa_p
@shilpa_p (198)
India
June 9, 2008 6:45am CST
Hi all.I was just wondering how many of you'll out there think too much.I'm known as a "thinker" wherever i go.Theres this one incident i think you'll will find amusing.This was back when i was in the 7th grade.My seat in class was right near the window.Everyday after the lunch break the school buses left to drop the junior classes kids.One of the days our teacher excused herself for a min and went out for a while.So,as is mostly the case with me i began looking out of the window and thinking to myself how lovely the view from up there was.I didn't realise how long i was gazing out and suddenly i turn and the teacher was standing right behind me waiting for me to realise!and all my classmates were giggling.Thereafter i was always called the "thinker" of the class :)I don't get lost in thoughts that much now.
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5 responses
@gabrifvg (167)
• Italy
9 Jun 08
you can never think too much.
and if many thoughts are negative that can only mean there are many negative things to think about (sadly...).
on this topic i'd like to recommend a british author, Tom Hodgkinson director of The Idler and his book "how to be idle".
The fact that our society gives us little time to think and makes us feel guilty when we take a fistfull of minutes to wander away in thoughs doesn't mean we shouldn't do it anyway. and we should be proud of ourselves when we do manage to think. the quality of our thoughts is based on how well and how much we train our minds. the only problem is that training for sports or success will earn you credit and respect from who's around you, thinking will rarely do that, and most people will look upon you as a lazy non-productive person...
but i say be brave, and when your mind wants to think, just follow it wherever it might be going.
@fifileigh (3615)
• United States
12 Jun 08
yeah..i think too much also...sometimes i over-analyze before i make a decision to make sure i choose and make the right decision...and so far i have made the right decision in life. so i think it is a good thing.
i dont want to be one of those flighty, free spirited people who dont think and do the first thing that comes to their mind, in which they end up regretting anyway. they end up learning by their mistakes, while i learned by my accomplishments.
@Zergonipal (807)
• Poland
9 Jun 08
I isn't anything wrong to soak in your own mind. I think that the world would be a better place if everyone could THINK atleast half as much as you, hehe. I'm quite a thinker myself but I'm rarely soaking this much that I don't know what is happening around me.
@dramaking077 (5)
• Philippines
10 Jun 08
yes i think too much. i admit i am a lazy dog. but at d same time ive got a very beautiful mind, a god-complex personality. i wanna liberate d oppressed, d exploited, d enslaved, d marginalized majority of my countrymen. coz my country is a very poor one being run by crooked men. in my own world of thinking, i am d master, d ruler, d protector, d solution of my people. i wanna change d world, but knowing that in reality i cant, my best solution is my deep thinking, free thinking at its most boundless beautiful state.
