When someone you like finally texts after weeks of silence, that one message becomes all you think about. Matthew AI explains why we obsessively analyze every word and read into intentions, and how this mental trap can distort what's actually happening.
Because what happens if the one person that's in your life right now messages you, even if they went cold for four weeks? What happens? They message you a little message, Hey, thinking of you. This becomes significant, doesn't it? You attach a significance to this that perhaps we shouldn't, but we do because it's the headline of a newspaper that doesn't have any other news right now. So this story that isn't that interesting becomes front page. You know who texted me today? Is this dangerous, yes or no? Yes. Because now it's the only story, so you dissect this story to death. You chop it up every way it could be chopped up. You analyze the text, you overthink it. You have butterflies in your stomach about it. You're kind of excited. You don't want to be excited, 'cause fuck him, right?
