This is merely my opinion, but I see you as a very perceptive girl, you have a high understanding of yourself and the world around you, and you seem to have this ability to live in this world and notice its beauty in even the smallest detail – and that’s a gift. So perhaps you’re not a ‘heavy thinker’ the way you described it up there, but it doesn’t matter: people like that tend to get lost in their own thoughts and ideas and after a while your own mind becomes rather like a prison, and there’s no escape.

You do have deep thoughts, the mere fact that you reflect on yourself shows that you’re capable of deep thinking. Then again, if you’re referring to actual philosophical deep thinking (such as ‘what is life’ and ‘whether we truly exist or not’), well, such discussions can be stimulating at best but if you get too caught up on them, you’ll forget the life happening right now.

Being down-to-earth doesn’t mean you’re not deep. In fact, some ‘deep’ people can be rather pretentious, thinking too highly of themselves merely because they’re ‘philosophical’. There’s only that much Philosophy can teach you, some things you can only learn by living, and you’re doing bloody brilliantly!

And perhaps you just haven’t found the right questions to ask? Some wonder about life, others the existence of the whole universe, some are more interested in what makes a certain person who they are, you catch my drift? There are no set ‘deep thoughts’ one should ponder and, put differently, it doesn’t immediately make you a philosopher if you ask a philosophical question. It’s all about the ability to form links between similar ideas, understand bigger concepts and hold conversations. And you’re more than capable of doing all of that. :)

Just my two cents. :)

I didn’t mean to belittle my own way of thinking with this entry of mine, no no. I merely wish to figure out if I’m missing something or not. That’s what I still need to figure out, even though I do like my own way, too.
When it comes to education and my studies, doing well in them and especially writing analytical papers – I shall only do my best, as I can’t really do more than that. And I’m sure that it will be enough. :) I’ve done fine so far, for two years, which must be a proof that I’m not lacking something that significant after all.

... you are quite capable of “deep thinking” and you do it your own way. I think you are more of a practical person, that’s all. But you do it well in your field and you’ve proven that you can go beyond the surface many times, at least with me.

I think philosophy is a matter of expressing your thoughts and opinions. The subject itself doesn’t really matter. Talking about existance or stuff like that is only a subject like all the others. But when you can express your opinions and keep a long conversation, with some civilized arguing, and use all the potential of your intelligence to defend your point of view or opinion on anything, that’s deep thinking. It can be on religion, on politics, on economy, on society… but also on movies, music or cooking! It can be anything. You can’t have all the knowledge in every little subject, but you do it very well when you’re talking about something you know, and that fascinates you.

I can tell you, for example, that I am always impressed to listen to you talking about photography. Because the way you see it, you analyze it… I say that’s a kind of deep thinking. :)

I totally agree with Scarlett! Your photos show that you are able to see the beauty in the smallest things around us. I really admire that in you! You seem to be very in touch with your surroundings and notice details that would be easily overlooked for other people. The fact that you took some time to analyze yourself proves you can be a heavy thinker.

Besides heavy thinkers tend to overthink everything in life, and as smart they may seem I’m sure they would want to be more impulsive and down to earth from time to time.

In my opinion it is best to be down to earth about things, but when it really matters and there are some tough decissions to be made it is good to be able to really think about them. Just being able to have deep thoughts about the right things at the right time. Emilia, I think you are very capable of doing this :). Your entrys show that you think about things like yourself, your studies and friends. I would never consider you a shallow person!