"Shouldisms"

So, that fast train metaphor still applies. Even having woken up with time to spare, I still have the feeling. Little chores and little events I have to take care of and I feel like time does not exist at all! Does this have anything to do with the Japan earthquake and the axis of the Earth and all that? ;)  I need some time to feel things and just be, but that’s not happening anytime soon. Or perhaps this evening?

So many ‘shoulds’ are nagging in my ear:

I should go grocery shopping

I should do my nails

I should do the laundry

I should go out with friends, with my mom

I should fix my car

I should eat something

I should walk to work

I should drop off the thing my mother asked me to drop off, even if that interferes with walking to work

I should be studying something...

I should sleep at different hours

I should do the translation exercises

I should calm down

I should take care of my feet/back/head/stomach

I should see the dentist/doctor/psychiatrist

I only have time for priorities and MY priorities, at best. Sometimes not so much, and it is other people’s prioritites…but if you look at it in a different way, my priority is to not have people in my hair and nagging me, so their priorities can sometimes be my own.