“A Note on Overthinking”
(for my dear students)
Dear explorers of sound, color, and thought,
Overthinking is the art of building endless castles in the sky — and forgetting to walk through the open door in front of you.
It feels productive. It feels responsible. But often, it is just fear wearing the mask of wisdom.
You wait for the perfect idea, the perfect mood, the perfect time…
And while you wait, your raw, imperfect, dazzling creativity grows dusty on the shelf.
Remember this:
A messy start is better than a perfect pause.
A flawed first draft is braver than a thousand unwritten masterpieces.
Your creativity doesn’t need a perfect plan. It needs motion.
It needs the clumsy beginning, the wrong turns, the awkward sounds, the wild colors spilled outside the lines.
Start anywhere.
Begin badly if you must — just begin.
Overthinking is a heavy backpack you don’t need to carry.
Let yourself create before you are ready.
Let yourself discover as you move.
Let the path appear under your feet, not in your mind.
The world belongs not to the ones who know all the answers, but to the ones who dare to step forward anyway.
With belief in your beautiful chaos,
Dr. Kamal Sabran