Obligation

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What do you have to do that you don't want to do?

What should you have done, that you did not do, because you didn't want to do it?

I probably should have learned to French braid my own hair at some point. It would be convenient. I just don't like how much work it is to do and how quickly I have to re-do it with my hair type.

Exercise.
Bake another loaf.
Prepare my meals.
Clean my dishes.
Travel by plane to the UK.
Take steps to ensure the airline has my passport details.
Pack my bags.
Check that the liquid in the cases that store my spare contact lenses hasn't dried out.
Do internet banking to pay my bills.
Go to bed at a reasonable time.


I've nearly always done the most important things, though the timing has often been too close for comfort.

Sometimes it's hard for me to know whether I want to do a thing or not, or maybe there are different kinds of wanting - sometimes I want to do things that for some reason I can't bring myself to do. So on one level, I always want to do the things I feel I should do, but either something stops me (such as impaired memory, fear, or a hard-wired tendency towards procrastination), or on some other level I don't want to do them. I suspect the English language has a flaw or two in it that tends to give apparent paradoxes when it's used to express these matters. "Wanting" may be a flawed term.