WTF My Brain

Have you ever put the kettle on and somehow ended up questioning your entire life before it’s even boiled?

Or gone out for a simple dog walk and come back with a new business idea and a slight identity crisis?

Or gone to bed thinking, right, I’ve got this now only to wake up thinking, absolutely not, we’re doing something else?

Please tell me it’s not just me.

I honestly thought this meant I was a bit all over the place. A bit too much in my own head.
A bit unable to just get on with things like a normal person.

But the more I’ve paid attention, the more I can see my brain just doesn’t do straight lines.

It wanders. It connects. It disappears off on little journeys without asking permission.

One thought leads to another, and suddenly I’m ten steps ahead, or somewhere completely different, wondering how I even got there.

Which, to be fair, is probably why I notice things other people don’t, why I care so much about getting things right,
why I can read a room in about five seconds.

It just also means I can be halfway through making a cup of tea and suddenly be rethinking my entire career.

Or standing in the kitchen thinking I’ll just quickly check something, and somehow ending up deep in a completely unrelated thought that feels very important at the time.

At 51, that’s been quite the realisation.

Nothing dramatic. Just one of those quiet moments of, oh… that actually makes sense.

It explains the overthinking, the constant questioning, the feeling of being switched on all the time.

And also why, when I’m tired or things feel a bit off, everything suddenly feels louder and harder to manage.

So I’m not trying to overhaul my life anymore.

I’m just trying to keep things a bit simpler, a bit calmer, and maybe, occasionally, actually finish making the tea before I redesign my whole life again.

Tell me I’m not the only one.

Link below to some help for the brain!