Think !

 Thinking is an integral part of our lives. We always associate thinking with intellectual capacities. Thinking in general, is making a judgement about something. It can further refer to exploring concepts, situations, discovering a solution or even trying to analyse a different perspective on a research material and so on. Often, thinking is reflecting on a problem and finding a suitable solution, this makes all of us believe that thinking is nothing but intellectual capacity. We even extend this notion and conclude that a skill of some sort does not refer intellectual domain but a craft! Is analysing and articulating a concept not a mere skill? Do we consider marketing personnel as highly intellectual people?

If someone is thinking a lot, it means he or she is stressed and finding a way out! it also means on a positive side that someone has the ability to analyse the situation further and is smart. Funny that, why would anyone have to keep thinking deep enough when there's no grave problem to address! We never question the necessity of thinking more than we need. We believe the necessity to use our brains as much! even if we need not have to.  The need to use our brains for unnecessary things go unquestioned. Overthinking is generally considered precautionary. 

Some may argue that finding the right combination to unlock a favourable solution needs a lot of analysing and thinking, thence one thinks more than necessary, but these solutions are not available to unlock as and when we need them.  

Generally people make big and bold decisions very few times in life and continue to hold onto them for life. Thankfully no one has to make path breaking decisions everyday throughout lifetime. Yet, we believe, in order to find the perfect solution, there isn't enough thinking! 

How often we miss opportunities in life? we always do. we blame ourselves for missing them. We do not need millions of opportunities for our lives, not that we get them, we are aware about that as well. 

Thinking relentlessly is a contemporary addiction. Not always out of necessity but an obsession. Moreover why should everyone become intellectual? Why can't we become a labour who follows just instructions for a mechanical operation? 

Are we obsessed with creative solutions and thinking abilities? Is the idea to think abnormally  is driven out of financial greed? mostly deceiving capacities? A cunning person is celebrated as a hero, just because he was able to deceive others. Have we wondered why deceptive qualities are considered intelligence? as in game of Chess? isn't that absurd? 

Our celebrated thinkers who thought about everything in micro detail, became leaders or heroes not because they sat and thought of them but they read and wrote extensively more than they analysed and established their thought. It is their action of reading, writing and working towards establishing their observation that made them great but not the thinking alone.  

 

A friend of mine, is believed to be a very good thinker because of his ability to analyse and articulate. More often you notice such people analyse everything to micro details even if they seem excruciating and unnecessary. People around him appreciate and reinforce him to keep thinking furthermore, but again for no good reason. It's been 20 years I have known him, since then his thinking hasn't materialised into any form and worse, he knows it. 

So what's the point when you can't materialise your so called thinking? A romantic may argue that it's a way of life and is beautiful. A democrat may argue that everything need not be productive and complain a capitalistic ideology.

I am concerned more about the mental health here than being productive for society. However thinking relentlessly over a subject is nothing short of destroying one's capacity to see things as they are. It is not healthy if one just thinks but doesn't act upon his thought. I believe, it piles up endless frustration and excess which makes unhealthy mind leading to speculating conspiracy everywhere, distrust in everything even to the extent of severe self criticism. 

How often we have criticised ourselves after getting cheated by someone? Every time we get cheated, we blame our trust on situations and people. Should there be a generalised idea that trust and deception are inseparable? However that sounds obvious, trust is not the only imperative for deception. A lottery is a trust or a chance? Deception or luck? and obviously we  don't get cheated always for trusting alone. 

Similarly the greatest idea is not necessarily churning from years of overthinking but a happenstance or a quick improvisation. Who would agree, when asked to rest our brains at needless hours? who would protest excess thinking? How do we know if it is excess? Subjective?

The answer would probably be, beyond situational limits? Beyond our capacities? beyond expectations? or beyond our capacity to imagine and speculate?