The will always want something.Are you free from your will? When is you mind done wanting, done thinking, done troubling, done doubting?You will doubt no more once you have taken action on that thought. Though after your action you might start to show remorse or reminisce about the what now lies in your past. Or analyse it in the perception you have gained in hindsight.As long as you have time and or energy you may let your mind be occupied, for example with analysing. You may do this to a point you may call overthinking.There is always something to think about. what will you gain from it? when will you be done? when you have made a decision? does that mean it is final? or when something more urgent pops up? when something more important comes along? none of the above will bring an end to the thinking. Life is a process. There is always something to do. There is always something to thinks about. Will distraction then, keep us from a troubling mind? Structural escapism in the form of entertainment. In the form of pleasure. Will it keep us from an active mind? It appears that way. Or does it exist parallel to the thinking but overshadows it? That might lie closer to the truth. Escapism only lasts until reality has caught up. Escapism keeps us from an active mind as long as it fills us enough. Distraction, entertainment and pleasure are forms of escapism. The pitfall of these elements of escapism is comparable to that of an obsession, of an addiction. You will need more to reach the same result. The will need a higher intensity in a growing intensity to reach the same result. The result being a temporary escape.The mainstream culture in the western societies abuse this pitfall and convince us we need different forms of escapism. There is always the next hot thing. The next show we must watch, the next piece of technology we must gain, the next hype to pursue. If we think we have something the world already presents the next. If the next is acquired the world creates something new that we can chase. You might criticise this line of thought with the argument that it also drives innovation. Indeed it does, but I am talking about the effect on the individual. On you. Do you think you grow as a person, as a ambassador of humanity is you continue to pursue such things, such fleeting experiences in shallow entertainment? Or do you just follow your will?Do you do what do want or do you do what you think you want? What is the will? The will always want something. Formulated by greater minds than my own called it the monkeymind. By an even more astonishing thinker it has been defined as the ego, the superego, and the Id.Imagine two people. One of them is clearly more energetic, seemingly more convincing, sounding more interesting. That one is obviously trying to get as much attention as is possible. The other is silent, content, so unnoticeable that one might be overlooked.To whom do you dedicate your time and energy? There is no wrong answer. There is no definitive answer. Though, we should be aware that is our choice to whom we listen. To whom we listen is the one we become. We may choose to switch sides because we are swayed. We may choose to for other reasons.There is one pitfall. We may forget the comfort of the silence, of the silent one, the one who is content. We may forget the joy of the turbulence, of the unrestful one, the one who moves. In truth, I think there should be a balance. That there should be a deliberate search for when to be whom. The one, the other, and the one who imagine represent the ego, superego and the Id.We should make a distinction between being physically silent and having a silent mind. Those who are silent or those who try to hide themselves, those who emit they do not want to disturb other may have an overactive or troubled mind. Those who are loud or those who want to present themselves, those who emit they are fearless may have an overactive or troubled mind.The two people I told you to imagine exist only within, they are representations. You cannot always see clearly from the outside who someone tries to listen to within. In contemporary terms: whether someone is extrovert or introvert does not show whether they are balanced within.The monkeymind may take over someone and have them in its control. As any other person, that person will benefit from learning how to listen to the silence within.Luckily there are many tools and guides to support you it this process. This process called life. Your life your way. As with all, awareness is the first step. That is the way of the self.