The Authority Within

I might … just might… do the dishes now…

Oh my goodness, I’m getting up. I’m walking over to the dishes. I’m doing it!

But suddenly a voice calls from the other room,

“Hey, you haven’t done the dishes in a while. When are you going to do them already?”

Ugh, I don’t feel like it anymore.

What just happened?

Our hero, already struggling with a want of motivation, whim, or the muse, finally had the winds tickling the sails. But when someone else told them to do very same thing they were about to do...