I Think, I Thunk: Less decisions more comfort

Back to when I came to Germany: I felt two strong emotions when making decisions. I felt grateful for all those decisions that my parents made on behalf of me. 'What to cook for breakfast, lunch and dinner' for starters (LOL- self laughing at my pun). Then there comes 'What to wear today?' - the biggest decision of all (a reason for me to be jealous of the man who lives with me).

Do you know that our unconscious mind processes about 11 million pieces of information per second, while our conscious mind can only handle 40 pieces per second? That surprised me too!! With all this information, an average human's brain also makes around 35000 conscious decisions in a day (Woah!)

My day starts with 'When should I wake up?', 'Which bus/train to take?', 'What to pack for lunch?', 'What to wear?', 'Which lipstick to apply?', 'Hairstyle?', 'Handbag?', 'Shoes/boots?', 'Keys/No Keys?', 'Jacket?', 'Weather?', 'Umbrella?', 'Walk?', 'Run?', 'Smile?', 'Guten Morgen/ Good morning?', 'Coffee?', 'Myriad work decisions!!!', 'When to go home?', 'US calls?', 'Tram timings?', 'Dishes?', 'Dinner?', 'Tomorrow alarm?', 'Entertainment? (Another biggest decision after 'What to wear' - I feel that is why mindless scrolling has increased lately!), 'Clean home?', 'Laundry?', 'Fold?' ARGHHHHHH!!! Stop it already XD

With my move to Germany, the number of decisions I made in a day increased (obviously!). What that also means for me is that I became more anxious, stressed and just felt terrible all the time (Yeah, that's me!). If you are reading this, I am assuming you know me and you're on my speed WhatsApp text dial (yes, that's a thing) AND if you know me, you must also know (sorry - can't stop thinking about this while I am writing "know" so many times: They don't know that we know they know we know!) that I am a professional overthinker and a consultant planner to all the planners in this world.

I can think about 256 scenarios that can go wrong with a decision and have back-up decisions for each of those scenarios XD (Oh yes! that's also a thing, my sane child). With this expertise, my thinking abilities have moved from 40 to 11 million pieces (I mean it almost became second nature/unconscious thinking ability) and THAT, my friends, is a superpower in a world that has overthinking as an Olympic sport (400 M relay - overthinking gold medalist is Shireesha, yay!).

 BUT, we are in a world where people constantly ask us not to overthink (I am already losing this game!!) and I overthink. I just do not understand why people don't do it, and I am absolutely jealous that they can sleep peacefully (WHAT!!) AND I LIVE with him!! Imagine all the agony I go through on a daily basis with a role model husband who does not overthink and is happy/content with the status quo :(

Maybe this is why Mark Zuckerberg has a single colored T-shirt to wear everyday!! (One less decision a day)

So, what does a sane person do?? Reduce overthinking these decisions? Totally!!  I removed a few decisions from my head so I can overthink the rest (Bwahahaa!!)

And the winners are: Workout and Hair!

As tired as you are of reading these, I make many more decisions and feel so damn tired at the end of the day that I do not have mental space (I can make time for more activities) to think about workout, workout wear, where to workout, what to workout.

I seriously did NOT have space to think about my hair wash schedule XD, especially how to dry during winters (it gets as cold as -10 here), hair fall remedies, hair fall recipes (yes they exist!) and spend euros on shampoo. I was just not getting the ROI for this stuff.

So naturally (right?) I stopped working out and chopped my hair short, I also believed that's why most of the successful women in business have short hair (?) !! Also, happy to report that I am a happy girl now!! (Delulu ULTRA PRO MAX)

What did you want? A sob story? No, this is the end, it's about why I am fat and why I chopped my hair (That's all folks!)

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