Overthinker

A person who thinks all the time

Has nothing to think about except thoughts

So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions

By thoughts I mean specifically, chatter in the skull

Perpetual and compulsive repetition of words, of reckoning and calculating

I’m not saying that thinking is bad

Like everything else, it’s useful in moderation

A good servant, but a bad master

And all so-called civilized peoples

Have increasingly become crazy and self-destructive

Because through excessive thinking they have lost touch with reality

That’s to say

We confuse signs

With the real world

Most of us would have rather money than tangible wealth

And a great occasion is somehow spoiled for us unless photographed

And to read about it the next day in the newspaper

Is oddly more fun for us than the original event

This is a disaster

For as a result of confusing the real world of nature with mere signs

We are destroying nature

We are so tied up in our minds that we’ve lost our senses

Time to wake up

What is reality?

Obviously, no one can say

Because it isn’t words

It isn’t material, that’s just an idea

Reality is…

– Alan Watts