Originally Posted by
redbaron
heh, I do it all the time. It involves sifting through one's memories and re-writing your perceptions of the facts to fit a particular viewpoint. For example, X happened. At the time that X happened, I may have interpreted X a particular way. Well, after 2 or 3 weeks go by, Y happens that causes me to reinterpret X in an entirely different way. This reinterpretation can happen while I'm sitting around doing nothing but thinking about it. I spend way too much time (admittedly) thinking about the possible ways X might be interpreted and what this might mean. I'm cutting back on these sorts of activities however. Waste of time and inevitably puts me way ahead of everyone else which is useless when dealing with others who take way longer to come to similar conclusions. I find that I'm a much happier person when I try to take things as they come at face value and stop trying to project meaning and/or possibility onto everything. There's a place for this, to be sure, but often it just gets in the way.