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Overeating is bad.

We all know it, yet somehow, we end up doing exactly that. Just because we are enjoying it, relishing it.

The thought of the damage never crosses us until the damage has been done.

Isn’t this happening to our minds too?

Overconsumption.

We are consuming too much of everything.

And we are doing it every second without even thinking about it. Too much information, too many opinions, too many stories.

It is just too many and too much of just about everything.

We’ve come to a point that sitting idle for even a minute makes us feel worthless. Picking up our phones as soon as we have a second to spare.

That spare second is being spent on peeping. Peeping on what is happening, in somebody else’s life. And then like them, get liked by them, feel sorry for them, feel jealous of them. We are sharing what we feel by typing our emotions with cute little faces.

That one spare second is making us feel sad, feel happy, feel enraged, feel hopeless, feel everything, and feel nothing, all at the same time. That spare second is defining and shaping our wants and desires.

We are spending that spare second on being directed, being brainwashed, and on stripping ourselves off thinking ourselves. The more choices we have now, the more we need someone else to make that choice for us. We need somebody else’s ‘TOP-TENs’, ‘10-BESTs’ and ‘HOW-TOs’ to guide us.

We are getting opinionated without even realizing that it might not be our opinion. That spare second is being spent cluelessly and aimlessly just so that it is not wasted.

And the damage is happening.

Who to hate, who to love, who to idolize, what to eat, what to like, how to be happy, what to desire, we are learning everything by following.

Following someone else.

Overconsumption has become the pollution of our mind.

It is too much noise and we can’t hear our own mind above it.

Only because we have stopped talking to ourselves.

This noise needs to be dialed down. The mind needs to unclutter. It needs to shed those extra kilos. It needs to go on a diet. Detox itself.

It needs to consume only what matters to it. It needs to stop overconsuming.

It needs to learn to sit idle. Start thinking on its own. Deciding on its own. Start making opinions that are its own.

It needs to spend that spare second wisely.

Hey Google! What do you think?

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