The Raw Thought: What Overthinking Really Is
When I’m in the kitchen, I love raw ingredients. A crisp cucumber. A bitter karela. A fresh tomato. There’s something honest about how they feel — before the chopping, the cooking, the softening begins.
Raw things hold a kind of truth. And I often wonder: does the mind work the same way?
Because that’s what overthinking feels like.
It takes one clear, clean thought — and starts chopping it. Adding spices of fear. Oil of doubt. Boiling it in stories that never happened. And by the end… you do not even remember what the original thought was.
You just feel full.
But not the good kind of full — more like bloated, heavy, and tired. Like you ate too much of something you did not even want in the first place.
One simple thought: “Maybe I made a mistake.”
Turns into: “Maybe I always mess things up.”
Then becomes: “Maybe I do not deserve good things.”
And suddenly, you are spiraling — all because of one message left on seen, or one awkward silence.
Overthinking is not thinking too much. It is going too far, without going anywhere.
It is like stirring the same pot again and again — expecting a better taste. But nothing new has been added. No new direction. No release. Just stuck, and tired.
So here’s a gentle question for today:
What is the raw thought beneath everything you are cooking in your mind?
Can you leave it raw, just for a while? Can you look at it without turning it into a story?
Maybe it is not weak to pause the pot. Maybe it is brave.
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Written with presence,
Shilpa Makkar
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