Obligations

On this week's episode of 'things my therapist says...', we have the word 'should'. If I start saying 'I should...' she always asks me: 'Why? Why should you?'. I can rarely muster an answer to convince myself, let alone her. She postulates that if I didn't feel such strong obligations on such flimsy bases, perhaps I might be happier.

I think she has a very good point, but tonight I still feel a strong sense of obligation. It's Friday evening, and I have a long and tough week at work. I would like to relax and play video games, but I have multiple personal projects that I feel compelled to work on, frontend code I should write, APIs I should learn, blog posts I should compose.

What if I never said 'should' again?