Overthinking can be seen as impactful at the beginning. Until eventually later on in life, overthinking can slowly increase more and more overtime. Overthinking can be a huge burden on how you think and base off on one solution/problem that causes you to think of other solutions. So for example, a real life situation would be when you’re in a relationship, you tend to overthink a lot since you have no clue of what your partner is thinking of or planning like he or she could be doing something behind your back is a thought but instead they were just chilling with you and doing something else in the meantime creating/making a gift for you to give. It can lead to a lot of problems of how huge this small burden is along with school-work too while you’re taking a test. 

Firstly, the relation to a life example of Othello. Othello overthought a lot and he was in a relationship in the story with Desdemona and he wasn’t very clear on his thoughts. He always gets angry easily so eventually, you’d need someone to vent to so that they can help you or you just wanted to get your problems to someone and it helps relieve you. Well yes it does but the person that Othello relies on isn’t much of help. Iago is also with Roderigo about the same situation because they’re both with Desdemona so at the beginning till the end of that situation,   because Iago has perspective on both ends on the same situation like how you’re the grandmaster going against another person but you have the entire playing field and all the cards and odds are stacked against that person. Which hits really close to home with me in this situation because I feel like in the past when I was younger, I told all my close friends about the issue with another friend who they were friends with as well. Now they have all the information about this situation and know all about me with the facts on the other side with my other friend (this happened during elementary school). In the end, they just had bad influences on me and convinced me to not be friends with them which was the wrong thing to do. In which I became desperate and relied on “friends” who I thought were being genuine with me but turns out they just toyed with my emotions. It got my reputation to look weak in the end and that caused everyday for the rest of that era to be miserable. I didn’t know how to feel about it so I just decided to motivate myself and come around to school with a smile on my face everyday. In the end, it went alright but it just hits too close to home with the same scenario with how overthinking can cause other negatives such as desperation causing a state of sadness and not thinking properly. 

Secondly, in the blog post of Mr.Theriault where he talks about how students can overthink the correct answer solution. Well, Mr. Theriault had a scenario where he discussed how bad he felt about not preparing his students for the AP exam that was being taken and that it was a poor effort. As Anna was the only one who stood up to Mr. Theriault told him, “You failed us. You didn’t prepare us for that test. There were terms and concepts on that test that I had never seen before. You were too easy on us. I can’t believe how badly you let us down.”  He was baffled at how badly he did as a teacher. So later on he found out that when a person knows more, “The more you know, the less you know.” Because he stated from observation in his teacher experiences, that he has seen his students who are intelligent try to observe things from multiple angles and eventually overlook the real answer. So in the end, on tests and quizzes, they are to change their answer which was originally correct but now in the present that time incorrect. Another thing that hits close to home because the amount of times that this happened to me during school was mainly assignments and tests/quizzes. Because during middle school, there was a math leaderboard thing where you get to be on for getting the least amount of points marked off throughout the entire year but that caused me to overthink and do the same problem over and over again. I didn’t want to get any problems wrong at that time and I wanted to get on that leaderboard by the end of the year but it was just tough throughout the process to get on that leaderboard. The amount of times I overthought a single problem is absurd, one time during mid 3rd trimester, during this test I was on this one problem for a solid 5 minutes thinking and redoing the process over and over again because I wonder if I did my steps correctly in which I did but I checked that one problem for 6 times total in the span of 5 minutes. It wasn’t even that difficult too but my overthinking just got to me and made me use more time than needed for no reason. Then it also sometimes caused me to make those mistakes on a couple of problems throughout the entire year because I had 6 wrongs total but 2 of them I found out I over-thought the process and I had the original answer correct. 

Throughout my entire life it just went from friends to academics, with friends I just moved on from my situation but the situations where I overthink about my grades, it can’t be changed. Even though it was middle school it still hurts a lot because that’s where everything changed and I became a totally different person. It just made me who I am now, and that I am blinded by my own thoughts and it’s just overwhelming. Sometimes I can’t even think properly, that’s why now I always try to seek out calling with friends. It helps me stay away from my overthinking and alone time because I can become delusional when I become alone. The feelings in the past come back to haunt me and make me feel weak and lead towards depression. But I will always try to motivate myself and make myself better each day by focussing on my life more and not love or any other feelings but instead leave those topics and let it flow along my life like how water flows down a river and a pebble falls into the water.