A week of turning yourself over in your head can harden into a story about yourself that isn't kind, or even true.

Muted blue-green with a faint quicksilver line. It sounds like water over stones and tastes faintly of mint.

Overthinking can build a harsh case and call it insight. It solves nothing and concludes nothing — it holds a quiet under the analysis, where the self being theorised can just be met as it is.