他不是吾

　他不是吾。 Ta wa kore ware ni arazu. Simply stated, people do different things.

There are impulses that ought to be ignored, let's call these your automatics, and then there are others that are generated in a different place and should be heeded. "Ah, that hamburger looks delicious, I want it!" "I'm tired of these shoes, I want new ones!" "I need an iPhone." These are your automatics, unintentional, conditioned responses to an environment for which they weren't forged. They're just your body engaging evolutionary survival instincts or reacting to culturally implanted social norms.

Then there are the other ones that surface in your mind from time to time. "Ah, I have to mail that letter." "I haven't spoken with him in a long time, I should write him an email." "this bathroom is pretty dirty, I should clean it." These are impulses that push you towards the things you know deep down you have to do, and if yhou jump on them you will feel great. If you push them away because someone else tells you to do them later, or because you think right now isn't the appropriate time, or just because you're lazy, you will create gap between what your subconscious mind knows you have to do and what your conscious mind will let you do. In those gaps there is a lot of pain and stress. Follow those little blips of inspiration wherever you can, though, and you'll find yourself falling into fewer ravines.