Pointless Overthinking

I’ve Studied Abroad 3 Times & I’ve Learned Nothing

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My first international class in Guatemala, followed by a semester in London, then a semester in Granada… and what do I have to say for myself? I’ve learned nothing.

Contrary to popular belief and folktales told by previous students who have studied internationally, living abroad for 5 months does not make you a world expert or even a world traveler. Needless to say, I’m not an

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Today I’m going to share a story about how my own brain f*cked me hard, together with a pair of wet jeans (I promise it’s different than anything you can imagine!)

Many many years ago when I was just a young boy (I think I was about 13 years old), my family and I had to move in with my grandparents because my grandmother got very ill and someone had to take care of her.…

Pain, truth, thoughts, emotions and everything our fragile bodies carry has a place in this world. Any demon can be defeated with the proper company and with the proper weapons and that’s why this blog exists.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings with us. Thank you for spending (or investing) some of your time in reading Pointless Overthinkingand thank you for letting us be a part of…

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*Attention! This is going to be a brutal post!*

From all the things we have in this world, there is one that rules them all (and no, it’s not the one ring). There is something that has the ability to control anything and anyone, if leveraged correctly. People tend to do anything for this, regardless if it’s moral or not, if it’s a good thing or not, if it impacts others…

The Past, The Present and The Future

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These three aspects seem to be so well delimited that it’s hard to believe they co-exist inside of us all the time. Even though yesterday seems to be over and that tomorrow is yet to come, we do think and behave now based on yesterday and tomorrow.

Wanna hear how this got into my mind now? No? I don’t care, I’ll tell you anyways. Yesterday me and my wife went to a store…

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Today’s a pretty rough day because I barely slept last night. And it’s not like I did anything… I only had a constant thought-flow with things that could go bad in my life (that and the fact that one of my cats made strange noises all night long). The thoughts were so bad that I literally got sick (headaches and stomachaches). And for what? For nothing!

I kept countering…

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Don’t worry, that “vs” is just for show. It’s not a battle, but there are differences, especially if we think about what “reality” really means.

Have you ever searched for what Wikipedia says about reality? Here it is:

“Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent, as opposed to that which is only imaginary. The term is also used to refer to the…

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When you think about your life, what thoughts come to you? What about when you think about life in general? What’s the difference between those two perspectives?

I’m now wondering if the feelings I have when I consider the worst parts of my life are the same with other people’s feelings. There are people on this earth that consider losing their phone being the worst…

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I always thought a piece of written content must be structured in such a way that it looks nice and that has a logical form from top to bottom. But does that apply to all types of writings?

Lately, I changed my mind and I think it doesn’t. Structured writing is very useful when you try to teach someone something or when you try to expose some arguments to convince…

The Art of Living

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It’s been a looong time since I wrote something and I’m not even sure I know how to do it. Life is so unpredictable that if you try to understand it, your mind might explode.

Actually, this is what happened to me. One year ago, I thought that all I can do is write for the rest of my life and that I’ll be happy. A few months ago, I started to get the impression that…

Philosophy: an art of living

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As this is my first guest post for Pointless Overthinking, it seemed appropriate to talk about philosophy as a way of living. It’s such an interesting idea, and although it differs from how one (usually) hears philosophy discussed today, I’ve noticed the idea (1) in the ancient period of Western philosophy, (2) in the philosophical dimensions of…

Re-connecting with My Time

As you may have noticed, it’s been a while since I posted something. It seems that time works against me and instead of helping me achieve things, it keeps me away from doing what I love. Because of this, I decided to re-connect with my time so we both are again on the same page.

This means that I will be away from Pointless Overthinkingfor a while until I figure things out so I can be back…

The “curse” of being wrong

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This is something most people want to avoid. This is basically why so many awesome ideas die. People cannot stand the fact they might be wrong. They just don’t, especially when they strongly believe in a certain idea.

This is related to the fact that an idea or an opinion is strongly connected to the self, the egoand anything that threatens the idea, it threatens the…

We become what we’re surrounding ourselves with – Reblog

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Starting from a comment Viola Bleu posted on one of my writings, I began skating the internet (I don’t surf because I don’t know how to swim), to get more insights about this idea that we are becoming what we’re surrounding ourselves with. Why is this happening? It’s happening because whatever we have around us becomes familiar and we like familiar things. The more…