The Thinker

I like and hate being alone for much the same reason: it gets me in the mood for some serious thinking. On one hand, the silence helps me focus more on the issue I need to resolve. I talk to myself inside my head and, pretty soon, peace of mind and clarity come. This is why I sometimes go to church alone. I sit there on a vacant pew and think away.

But also: the quiet kicks my tendency to over-analyze things into hypermode. I start reading too much into things, dissecting what's happened until it bears no semblance to the original. At this point I reconsider the benefits of noise.