Overthinking, Overwhelmed, and the Power of Starting


Writing - English Practice
✍️ Type: Free writing / Reflection
I often feel overwhelmed—do you ever feel the same?
Today, I suddenly realized why this feeling visits me so often. When I don’t have a clear goal, my mind starts overthinking. I can get stuck for a long time, thinking about dreams that feel far away—things I want, but that require a lot of effort and luck to reach.
Ironically, I often do nothing about them. I just think, and then go back to my routine. Strangely, that brings me some kind of satisfaction, even though I never actually get there.
Sometimes, I feel disappointed in myself. I have so many ideas that I think are great, but none of them ever come to life. Over time, the possibilities pile up, the options multiply, and I don’t want to give up on any of them. But if I want to become the person I imagine, I’ll need to take action—because time moves on and never comes back. And with that thought, I feel nervous, overwhelmed, even lost.
Right now, I’m building a project for an interview. It uses DDD (Domain-Driven Design) architecture. I work on it with full focus—solving problems, searching for answers, and doing it all over again. It brings me peace and clarity. This hands-on DDD experience is something I’ve wanted for a long time, but I only got started because of this interview. Somehow, that external push awakened my self-driven power.
Having ideas is great, but so what—if nothing gets done?
So I remind myself: if you want to do a lot in a short time, don’t try to do everything. Choose what matters most to you—and start right now.
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Today is Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
I often feel overwhelmed, how about you?
Today, I suddenly aware that why I often feel overwhelmed, If I have no special target, I always overthinking and can not weak up in long time, think about something I want to get but It's far away from now, perhapes it need so many effort and luck to get there, acutryly, I never do any action after I go back in fact. I'm feel happy and satisfied about that, ever though I never get there ever. Sometimes, I disappeaed to myself, because I have many great thoughts, but no one is achieved, over time, So many ways to chooise, no one way want to be absent, too many works to be done, if I want to be who I imagined, Time is going and never get back. After that, I feel nervies, overwhelmed, disappeared.
Now, when I build a project for inteview, the project need use DDD architecture, I do it with attention, encounter the problem and then reasearch on the Google, and next do it again over and over, I keep my eyes on it, peace and quiet. This DDD hand-on experience is what I want to do for a long time, But I start to build it and get a great progress just cause by a interview, a power come out of self-drivin. I have many great thoughts, that's good, but so what? No one has been done!
Take care about that if you want to do many in a short time. Get a the most important to you, and do it right now.
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