Disclaimer: If you follow this as a prescription, you will get nowhere.
You spend all your waking hours thinking, thinking, thinking.
Planning. Worrying. Rehearsing.
Often to an unclear end.
You believe your thinking is necessary. Maybe even productive.
But most of it isn’t.
It’s circular. Repetitive. Distracting.
It gives you the illusion of progress — without the risk of actually moving.
That’s why it’s so comforting.
Overthinking is a distraction disguised as preparation.
And worse — it’s self-fulfilling.
The more you think, the more you need to think.
One more pass. One more angle.
You’re just being thorough, right?
But it’s a trick.
Overthinking disconnects you from reality.
It creates an alternative world in your mind that feels just real enough to believe.
You run detailed simulations of imagined outcomes.
You suffer through entire failures that haven’t happened.
And the mind keeps feeding you these loops.
It’s trying to help.
It wants to keep you safe.
But the mind doesn’t understand growth.
It only understands risk.
And to the mind, movement is risk.
So it keeps you still.
It’s good at it.
The human mind will trade freedom for familiarity.
It would rather stay in the misery it knows than risk an outcome it doesn’t.
That’s why people don’t change.
That’s why you keep overthinking.
Because overthinking isn’t an accident.
It’s a pattern that gives you something.
It gives you something to do — while doing nothing.
It lets you delay, while looking responsible.
It lets you say “I’m working on it” — without actually facing it.
Deep down, you know this.
You know it’s not leading anywhere.
But you still do it.
Why?
Because there’s something you’re avoiding.
There’s a truth you’re not ready to face.
Maybe you don’t want to take action.
Maybe you just want to want something — so you can keep the image intact.
Maybe you like the idea of movement more than movement itself.
And maybe — your entire inner dialogue is a disguise.
So how do you know if you’re overthinking or just thinking?
Simple.
Is anything changing?
If not, it’s a loop.
And no amount of looping will take you anywhere new.
So what can you trust?
Not the mind.
Not its stories.
Not its fears.
Not its logic dressed in anxiety.
The only thing you can trust is reality.
And reality responds to movement.
One honest step.
Then the next.
You don’t need to figure it all out.
You never will.
And the more you try, the more tangled you’ll become.
There’s a point where planning becomes avoidance.
Where thinking becomes self-protection.
Where clarity doesn’t come until you move.
So move.
Not impulsively. Not recklessly.
Just sincerely.
A small act done honestly is more clarifying than a thousand hours of inner debate.
If you keep overthinking — it’s because you want to.
There is no right or wrong here. If you want to spend your life entertaining yourself with loops — go ahead. Keep thinking, keep replaying the same scenarios, keep living in imagined realities. That’s your choice.
But you're here for a reason. You’re here because something in you is tired of it — because you can’t stand the weight of your current life.
Now you’re at an impasse. And like all of us, you’ll choose whatever feels least painful.
Either you confront the discomfort of your wasted potential — and let that pain move you.
Or you cling to the overthinking and stillness you know, because anything else is unimaginable to you.
Take the step.
Sincerely,
Milo Morrison