From one overthinking mind to another…

“And I, a Phoenix will rise indeed.
And the ashes are but my boosters.
A Phoenix I am, rising from the Ashes.”

Have you ever died before?

Think about it for a minute. Did you think of at least one case when one of your selves died? It sounds a little unusual, but have you though of the selves that your mind creates and that these selves are fleeting? We all experience it in one shape or form, we just never see it as actual death. Think about a time in your life when you felt safe and comfortable with an image of yourself- as a professional, a mother, a wife, a young man or a woman, an athlete etc. This state persisted for a while, you got into a comfort zone and identified yourself with the image of a woman or a man, who is the manager of an X company, has a kid, friends, lives in the city with her husband/wife, is stylish and is going out every Friday night... You identified yourself with that “I” and didn’t really know who you were outside of that. But something drastic happened and your life changed completely. Now, you are trying to adapt to the new image of yourself, and if you remember a time like that, you know it is a very painful and uncomfortable process, similar to “shedding skin”. Life has a way of doing that at some point, it teaches you that the “I” that you created, nurtured and…