左思右想

to turn over in one's mind (idiom); to think through from different angles / to ponder

to think / to believe / to suppose / to wish / to want / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth)

to think (about) / to think of; to devise / to think (that); to believe (that) / to desire; to want (to) / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)

left / the Left (politics) / east / unorthodox / queer / wrong / differing / opposite / variant of 佐[zuo3]

(bound form) right; right-hand side / (bound form) (politics) right of center / (bound form) (old) west / (literary) the right side as the side of precedence

to think / to consider

Zuo Si (3rd century), Jin dynasty writer and poet