Grateful I don’t feel the need to chase my thoughts anymore via /r/gratitude

I don’t know if meditation has helped me with this shift or not but it has happened since I started meditating. Have you ever noticed a thought and wondered where the heck it came from? I used to spend so much of my time doing this – backtracking. Like I was looking for something that I’d lost. “Why’d I think of that?” Or “what triggered that memory?” I noticed it more when I started meditating but that makes sense cuz that’s when I started to notice my thoughts instead of distracting myself from them with movement all of the time. I’d lay there chasing the origin of a single thought going through the maze of my memory of my thoughts. Sometimes I’d find it and I’d understand “ok, that makes sense why that lead to this weird thought” and for some reason that would help me to let it go. But a lot of times I’d just keep searching and searching with no luck or understanding as to why I would have such a dark thought or to what triggered such a painful memory. I’m thankful that I noticed this and am able to course correct myself more easily now. Just watching the thoughts roll on by like the clouds.