Musings & Marginal Madness: Thinking

            For me, taking action almost always requires a great deal of forethought and fretting.  I’m not talking about moral or social issues, I’m referring to the logistical side of decision making.  I don’t make concrete commitments to anyone, including myself until I know how I am going to accomplish it.

            This blog is the perfect example: I had been pondering on various parts of this for over a year before I actually got traction on the project!  I was making lists and reading how-to books about blogging! (Surprisingly there’s a plethora of these books, so I’m not the only one who does this.)  I’m the type of person who has to understand a good chunk of what I’m attempting before I’ll try it.

            I’ve been told occasionally that I think too much, which I find to be quite rude.  Just because I think a lot, and probably more than the person making that remark, doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing.  If most of my thoughts were negative or prone to excessive worry, then I would agree that something needed to change.  However, what usually causes these encounters is me trying to understand a new concept.  Often the problem is that I’m over-complicating things, I will admit that, but I don’t feel that makes it acceptable to say, “You think too much.”

            Excuse me?  What am I supposed to do about that?  I don’t know any other way to think!  It is possible to relearn patterns of thought.  I know this and have had some positive experiences doing so.  However, that doesn’t alter the quantity of thinking that I do!  Besides which, that isn’t the actual problem!

           The problem is that somewhere between the beginning and the end of the new concept I am getting lost.  Maybe I’m over-complicating things, maybe a terrible explanation is being given, it doesn’t matter.  What matters is saying, “You think too much” accomplishes nothing besides irking me, so can we please just focus on what the actual problem is?