Overestimated

Job.

The thought that you won't be able to last as long as you want to. The weight of strain. The fear of not being able to perform well. All those negative thoughts that act like weeds around your greenery of positive outlook - they're all, in the long run, overestimations. And, at the same time, underestimations of yourself. The feeling of wanting to back down, that you can't do it - sometimes it's because we magnify things that are, in reality, small. And more often than not, it's just a lack of faith.

Feelings.

It's as if your emotions rule you, and not the other way around. It's when you think you want this, need that, long for it so bad, have to do this - and the feeling is just so strong. When we think there's nothing we can do about what's going on in that emotion machine beating like a drum inside of us, that we have to succumb to what we feel, that's when we're overestimating our feelings. It's like mistaking a simple liking feeling for love. It's when your feelings bear the meaning of what's happening around us. Feelings and emotions are great. But when you're overestimating them, this time, it's not a lack of something; it's an excess - of weight that we give to what we feel.

People.

It's as wrong to overestimate people as it is to underestimate them. We should have a simple balance of unbiased faith in the good in people and wisdom to discern their inner motives, discern who they are. Overestimating people, when you think of it, is like judging them in a way. And it's not just when you strongly believe they can sing so fine when they really cannot. It's in giving too much power to their words. It's in making yourself so weak, you easily get influenced by them in a wrong way. Remember, we weren't told to love our neighbor more than we love ourselves, but as we love ourselves.