Do i need to do something about this?
Hey everyone, just wanted to share something with you that's been on my mind lately... I have been wondering if I may have something slightly wrong with me after struggling with overthinking things a lot.. My brain just seems to be a bit too imaginative sometimes and I really just love thinking about things.
I seem to always be having "deep thoughts" or abstract ideas about random topics. My mind just drifts and I think about things more than I should. In other words, I feel as if I come up with certain thoughts that other people don't really understand or really "grasp." I'm definitely not saying they have a lack of intelligence by any means. Just wondering why I think about (and truly make sense of) these unique concepts when most others can't relate to what I'm trying to say. It's really confusing because I really consider myself to be a completely normal person. I'm an 18 year old freshman in college... I'm well-mannered, make good grades, care about people, have great friends, etc. I'm active in my friendships and I don't feel as if people think I'm weird whatsoever... I'm outgoing and love to talk. However, in my mind I always feel like people judge me or think I'm awkward or something like that. I'm not sure why but it may be because sometimes I feel like I don't really fully relate to people. For example, I'll always ask my friends: "have you ever thought about this?" *insert idea or thought* and they almost always have no idea what I'm talking about and never really care to try to understand it either... As if they know I'm going to continue to confuse them. Maybe im just freaking out, who knows. My life seems to be fine for the most part and there's no huge concerns that I'm aware of. I just wanted to know if there could potentially be something wrong with me based on everything I mentioned above and also the example below. I've never been one to really know much about disorders and such but I definitely feel like I could have something slightly off. Maybe I'll just label it down as being super creative... Hopefully my brain just likes to think and there are no real problems lol. Anyways, there's an example below to demonstrate something I've thought of before that others just don't seem to understand. The idea is hard for me to explain so I may have had a few repeat statements by accident and I'm sorry about that. I was trying extra hard to get people to understand it haha. But anyways, here it is.
I think about how all the buildings in the world, miles upon miles of paved roads and rail road tracks, endless lines of telephone polls, etc. were at one point never here. These things had to be thought of by someone even though the thought/concept of these things had actually never really existed before.
Individuals just somehow randomly developed these ideas or thoughts in their mind and then effectively acted upon those ideas. Essentially, these spontaneous thoughts have shaped society into EVERYTHING it is today. All because people throughout history have came up with completely new ideas out of complete NOTHING and then carried out the idea. As a result, they and ended up discovering something incredible such as electricity, gravity, or even the idea of telephones or technology in general. No one would know what these things are today if these thoughts were to have never randomly appeared. I also believe this is still happening today, but because it's the present and not history, it is hard to really recognize these ideas developing around the world as they appear to develop too slowly in real time. Eventually, in the future, these ideas will accumulate and the world will be completely different than how it is today. There will be new theories, completely new concepts, ideas, viewpoints, inventions, etc. that have never been heard of or thought about simply because they hadn't ACTUALLY existed before because the idea had not been thought of yet. I just believe this explains a lot about thinking and developing the world over time. Most people just don't understand what I'm saying but it makes total sense to me