I had a thinking problem :/
 

* Do You Think Too Much? *

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then to loosen up. Inevitably though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone — "to relax," I told myself — but I knew it wasn't true. Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't stop myself.

I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

Things weren't going so great at home either. One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her mother's.

I soon had a reputation as a heavy thinker. One day the boss called me in. He said, "Skippy, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job." This gave me a lot to think about.

I came home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..."

"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!"

"But Honey, surely it's not that serious."

"It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as college professors, and college professors don't make any money, so if you keep on thinking we won't have any money!"

"That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently, and she began to cry. I'd had enough. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door.

I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche, with a PBS station on the radio. I roared into the parking lot and ran up to the big glass doors... they didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. As I sank to the ground clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked. You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster.

Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker. I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed... easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.

Still addicted, I know it's not good, but I can't help myself, friends are deserting me in droves, every time I walk into a room peoples eyes glaze over, I need help, I can't stop thinking.

Same here, worst part must be thinking about thinking, it just gets you think more!

I like to think myself to sleep.
Been doing it for something like 11 Presidents.
There I go thinking again. :rolleyes:

regards
Mech

Frank -

I think you need a drink.

CarloSW2

...the new and improved "12-Steps to Better Thinking" Program (sponsored by the Whiskey Consortium).

The thinking problem usually leads to the drinking problem that was meant to stop the thinking problem...........thinking, drinking, not thinking..........what was the question?

Makes you think who's doing the thinking for you ...

Don't you have to be 21 to think? You need ID too, right?

I'm very proud of my wife, next week is her 20th anniversary of not thinking.

^^^^^^^^^^^Now that's funny!

I have a sister who lives in Rome/Paris over the last 20 yrs so I can sympythize with what you Europeans must go thru......

She thinks in multiple languages :eek:

talk about mixing your thinking!!!!:rolleyes:

Mixed thinks- bleah!

Depends what your blending.:p

Is she like that poor Utah woman ( 80 mph story) that tries too hard??

I think (oh! oh!) that at times we try too hard. Most of the common folks don't try
at all, which makes us stand out, and causes waves. People don't want their boat rocked!

Some times you've just got to please yourself, and that could involve the T word!!!

Frank, I want to say," Thanks." You've shown me that there are others out there with a thinking problem also. I've been thinking that I was alone. Maybe finding this forum was my subconscious way of seeking solace. You've given me courage to seek others with this affliction.

You're welcome! Be aware that thinkers are a small group; others may be hard to find (locally at least).

This brief period of Internet "connectivity" has been a salve in re this topic.

Thinking and youngin's and non-thinking parents
 

We used to think that kids' brains matured around 16. Witness driver lic's at 16, drinking at 18-21.

Whoops, the brain does not mature till 25. Unable to think, then unable to think are allowed behind the wheel, drinking, smoking pot, driving the high horsepower cars their non-thinking parents bought them expecting the kids to be "thinking" because of their belief that they have matured thinking brains".

Parent then try to think about their kid's inability to think and the non-thinking parents get lost in trying think about their kids thinking(not) ,and then the parent nonthinking about the kid's non thinking while all the while nonthinking that their thinking is actually true thinking.

Sometimes this non-thinking illness is life-long for both parties....life-long.

I did think about that issue and years ago I decided that best solution is just think everything in English and then translate for my native language, it is easier that way, no accidental double thinking anymore :p

If you don't talk to your kids about underage thinking, who will ?

One of these days I'm going to get pulled over for thinking and driving.
DWI Driving With Intellligence is not tollerated during rush hour. I avoid it for that reason.

Thinking and driving: odd outcomes:
 

When I dare think and drive I often don't arrive at my planned destination. I often "come to" at odd destinations. I guess that I "blacked out" because of thinking and driving.

Controlled thought zone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWNmqdLmAfc