Hypothetical Excerpt from the Inner Dialogue of the Main Character of a True Story

 . . . Though he thought his problem was overthinking, it was not. It was his reaction to a difficult situation that defined his greatest error. It was the virtue of courage that he lacked. He was a coward. Thus came the torrents of superfluous and death-by-a-thousand-cuts thoughts and considerations and doubts. When one is afraid of the result of making a decision, one rationalizes the tremulation and sputtering that results from any particular juncture. And so he was more "thoughtful" than he should be. It was plain as day. He only wished he could escape this fateful dynamic. He wished ... what? That he was not a coward? If only it were that easy. What makes a coward? Surely it is a process. Men are not born cravens. They are made. He wished he understood himself better.