The Introspective Power of Sitting With Your Problems

Your problems can be your best friend during this time

If These Walls Could Talk

As someone with a tendency of overthinking, this quarantine time is both a blessing and a curse. You’re forced to sit still in a solitary environment as your thoughts run free. Even worse, you may be thinking about your problems. The many challenges and what-if’s that are resulting from this uncertain time period of our lives.

Deep thinking is a hell of a drug. It can lead to passionate, creative highs — and anxiety-inducing fear if you allow it.

You could run from it. Just run from all of it. Why sit alone and allow yourself to be miserable with your many problems when you can find ways to entertain yourself? Sure. Go ahead and find something amusing to distract yourself with. Enjoy the latest video game, check out another Netflix Original (I hear Money Heist is pretty good), or just drink until you can’t think about it anymore.

However, no matter how hard you distract yourself, your problems are still there. Distraction is no replacement for true meditation and ruminations. Today, your problems may be something as minor as deciding your…