3. “What do you think that actually means?”
To sum it up in three words, we overanalyze everything. Whether it’s deciphering the tone of someone’s text because they forgot to put a smiley, or simply dissecting a very simple and often meaningless comment, we spend more time wondering what it “could have meant” than how much time it took the person to come up with it. Although analyzing things can sometimes be quite helpful, it often turns into a snowball effect where the analyzing turns to questioning which then turns into stress and uncertainty. There are so many other things going on in the world, why create our own ideas over things that are often meaningless? It doesn’t mean that we should stop caring, but we should stop worrying so much.
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