People Say I Overthink Things, To Which I Reply With the Obvious Answer

People Say I Overthink Things, To Which I Reply With the Obvious Answer

There’s very little daylight between overthinking
and not being able to get to sleep, which is why

I’m writing this when I should have gone to bed
30 minutes ago. In our language “bed” is usually a location,

but in video games it’s almost always a tool. This seems
like a weird disconnect to have survived for this long;

I hear Legend of Zelda has a robust cooking system now.
We’ve not learned how to linguistically cope with microwaves,

so technically I “cooked” my dinner, despite the lack of effort
(effort being what the term usually implies). Parentheses
 
are a sure sign of an overthinker (and not coincidentally,
my favorite punctuation mark). They imply a plethora of ideas,

such that they cannot be contained by standard sentence structure,
but also, maybe, triviality. More respectable is the dash—
 
and the semicolon; now I’ve got that crude ditty from childhood
stuck in my head, the one that starts “You wake up in the morning,

put your feet on the floor, do the fifty-yard dash to the bathroom door—”
Though I've only slept in one place (with a floor) that was fifty yards (actually more)

from a bathroom door, and we weren't allowed to use it for that;
delicate plumbing system. Maybe it's a football reference, e.g.

the type of dash you do at, or to get to, the fifty-yard line?
They should change the name to yardball, piss everyone off,

especially the etymologists. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary
"overthink" does not mean "give more thought to a topic than it deserves"

but in fact "exhaust oneself with too much thinking," in which case,
I can see your point (though it still doesn't help me sleep). Apparently,

there are some rare brain cancers that get worse the more you think—
so that's something to think about.