Notice that you can respond immediately, altering your plans, when a priority calls: be a person, value, or object. It is instinctual to jump into action without pondering emotional weight when a pet or friend is in distress or when a glass breaks.
However, when you have time to consider your priorities, they become a marketplace of bidding values linked to emotional states: over time, pleasure beats out responsibility, or guilt wins out over comfort and transforms into duty.
The trick, as usual, is balancing between the ‘should’ and ‘must,’ the personal welfare and communal bond.
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