The Overthinker's Lens

 Love is For Fools! Part 2   ......          But then, after overthinking every little thing, I realized something: there’s no such thing as the "right person" or the "wrong person" when it comes to love. It’s not as simple as we like to make it seem. When you truly fall in love with someone, it just happens—there’s no checklist, no logic behind it. It just flows, unbidden. The heart doesn’t stop to analyze or question; that’s what the brain does. But love? Love isn’t something the brain can control.      When your feelings go beyond all the mental gymnastics of right and wrong, that’s when you know you're truly, madly, deeply in love. When it’s so intense that, no matter what the person does, you can’t hate them. Even if you wanted to, it’s impossible. It’s almost like a pull, a gravity that won’t let you go. You can sense them, feel their presence, even if they haven’t said a word or made a sound. It’s like the universe whispers t...

Love is For Fools! Part 1  Everybody’s talking about building yourself, focusing on life, but nobody ever mentions that carrying emotions in your heart is just as important as having a goal in your mind. Without emotions, would we even be human?      I guess the idea of love I had was something that existed only in my mind. Because, thinking about love in that way, and loving in that way, never made me feel like I was being fooled by my emotions. But when I looked around at the world, I realized that love like that doesn’t really exist. The emotions I carry in my heart, nobody could ever understand them, and nobody could ever relate to them. It’s as if they’re something only I can feel.      Sometimes, or maybe always, we pursue things in the outside world based on the amount of emotions we carry inside. But those things aren’t real. They’re just illusions we’ve created in our own minds. People and things were never what we thought they were. It’s us w...