Whenever something major happens, I can’t help but constantly think about it again and again. It might be a good thing or it might be a bad thing. Regardless, after overthinking, I’ve slowly come to realize that it destroys you.

Every now and then it’s good to analyze a situation, it’s only human nature. What can I say, we’ve all done it .Whether we are confused about whether someone likes us back, questioning a homework problem, or even dealing with our own emotions, we tend to think a little more about a certain situation to protect ourselves.

For a while, it’s okay to do that. But when I realized it became a habit of mine, it caused me to think of situations that would probably never exist. Not only did I start to worry about unnecessary things, I lost my happiness.

I wasn’t sure what to do or how to even react.

I let my mind get to the better of me and I started assuming things would happen, but in reality, it would never happen.

I hit a stage where I was confused. I mixed up who to trust and believe, because I was always a little paranoid after overthinking every little situation that would happen.

I realized that this wasn’t healthy and I needed to figure out what to do.

I had to start chanting mantras to myself in order to calm down. I had to keep telling myself that everything happens for a reason, and whatever happens, happens. It’s all meant to teach us a lesson.

I had to come to terms with the fact that we may not know the answers to everything. Sometimes, that is a good thing. There may be a reason why we don’t know why certain things happen in our life.

If we knew all the answers as to why things happened, then we wouldn’t be questioning what would come next in our future. Everything that happens is meant for us to learn so we know not to repeat any mistakes in the future. It also makes us a little wiser.

And if sometimes, we don’t understand the lesson the first time, it’ll keep coming up in new situations, until you finally learn what you are meant to.

Everyone we meet is either a blessing or a lesson, and in the end instead of trying to figure out what went wrong or why things happened the way they did, I’ve come to learn to accept what is and just move on with my life.