Hey Alex,

You seem to be a bit like me.... always questions but seem to find no answers! Very frustrating and depressing. Humans have been around for how long??--- hasn't it been long enough to have all the answers??--- let me say-- there will always be unanswered questions as long as there are humans with questions.

I've been advised that I " think too much "--( by my therapist) is that such a bad thing?? I suppose it can be when it hinders a person's mental health. If it gets to the point where depression sets in... that's when it's time to take life more lightly..... just how does someone shut off the thinking and take life easier??

One suggestion to try:
Look through the eyes of a child... (k.i.s.s.--- meaning-- Keep It Simple Stupid)
When thoughts get overwhelming for me I try to go into the child's mind.... admiring the new bud that's about to bloom on the rose bush as if seeing it for the first time, watching the ants struggle---carrying a fly's wing back to the ant hill, the bird in flight diving at the sporadic fluttering moth..... when you look at all that--- just how do we rate in all those lives??? Does any of it even realize we exist?

Yes, movies, TV and reading can be an escape also-- but there's something different to looking through life with child's eyes! It never fails in lifting my spirits! It is just a distraction-- but sometimes, that's just what was needed.

Hope you enjoy your summer and-- take a " thinking break" !!

Mandy