Why Self-Awareness Leads to Overthinking (And Feels Like Pressure)

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Being self-aware is both a boon and a bane. It neither holds me back nor helps me grow faster. The more I know myself, the more my brain thinks. The self-aware spider makes a web of thoughts within the mind. Messy thoughts didn't just affect my words, they exhausted my energy, leaving me blank. Constantly thinking about improvement has become my pattern. Doing it continuously exposes my flaws and mistakes. And knowing the pattern makes it harder to ignore them. Whenever I think, my brain struggles between thoughts of flaws and improvement. Mental noise replaces clarity in this conflict. While writing blogs, clarity plays a significant role in giving words to the voice. But sometimes I fumble while writing words for my thoughts and learnings. I begin analysing in between more than expressing. I constantly look after the thoughts I write, ensuring they define my emotions and thoughts completely. Clarity struggles and turns into constant questioning. I remember a specific...
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What 100 days of writing taught me about myself?

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I never gave up despite facing hesitation, confusion, blankness, laziness, fear of judgement and much more. I never chose continuity as my option but my necessity. It started with expressing with honesty and continued with exploring myself, giving a strong voice to stand for myself. It's not a journey but a process which doesn't have an end.

The one who never knew his potential transformed into a better self-observer. Now, writing has given me a reflection of myself, both within and outside. Trusting the process has helped me experience something new every single day. Whether it was about creative exhaustion or resistance, I didn't stop exploring myself more and more.


I never expected I would get some of the most incredible learnings of my life. I knew hesitation, overthinking, confusion, fear; but wasn't aware of the process to take them down. Writing became that process to win over each of them.

Mistakes are quite common for me. But never acknowledging them was the worst habit I had earlier. But as I said, on this journey of giving a voice to myself, I faced them bluntly without any excuses. I didn't know how much I improved but know what flaws have to be avoided.

On this journey, motivation fades after a few days, but consistency is holding my finger like a father holds his child's. Enthusiasm only gave a foundation to the journey, but stability came when I expressed on regular days. There were many days when overthinking forced me to give up, but firmness didn't allow me to do so.

Writing myself was not about the content but more about myself; for my clarity, observation, learnings, and way of seeing things. The better I write, the more I get answers to my confusion. I remember what I mentioned in my first blog: whatever is going to happen will happen, but I will improve for sure. I observe that spark of being better on this journey every single day.

I didn't start by being perfect but with imperfections and complexity. I realised I didn't need to have perfect thoughts but authentic ones. Chasing perfection was never my priority, but becoming better with every passing day was.

I am not the same person as I was on the first day of writing a blog. Confidence has an upper hand over hesitation and fear of judgement, which is not letting me fall back. Courage, being a partner, has allowed me to express confidently.

This isn't the end of the 100th day but the beginning of the evolution that I want.

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