It is that deep, mon ami

I

A counter for overthinking, “it is not that deep” has found a place in our culture. And I kind of like the saying, but as every trendy saying, it gets overused.

I am obsessed with minute details of life, and most of my day I spend in my head. However, I am the opposite of an overthinker. I don’t think about the future at all, for example, it’s not that I am against thinking about the future, It just never occurs to me to think about it.

I am wise enough to not share most of my thoughts, as giving an intro to the minute detail I am thinking about can take many minutes. Whenever I, however seldom, share the microscopic interpretations of things I am thinking about, I often hear “it is not that deep, bro”.

II

What I love about religion is that it is intention-based: everything is weighed against the intention behind it, rather than only by its consequences. This keeps me happy, as I believe most people are good-natured (and if not, well, they’ll get karma’d for that), it keeps my own intentions in check.

The second thing I love is that its underlying message is absolute, almost tyrannical: everything is under inspection, nothing is above judgement.

In fact, what I love the most, is there is no “it’s not that deep” in religion. In everything that is divine, the true meaning is always one layer deeper.

III

Some people say I think too much I don’t think they think enough

~ Danny Brown

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t.

~ David Foster Wallace

How you do anything is how you do everything.

~ Unknown