People Like Me

When people tell us to do somthing we were already planning to do, we feel less inclined to actually do it. We don't like to be told things we already know, and we feel irrationally angry to be reminded of things we don't need reminded of. I don't know what this say about us.

Today I was planning on going to the bank to deposit some money. About fifteen minutes before I'd planned on leaving, my roommate told me that I should go to the bank to deposit the money. She just wanted to make sure that the money got deposited, but I resented her saying it; like she didn't trust me to remember myself. Then I felt like I couldn't leave right away to deposit it like I'd planned, because then it would look like I hadn't thought of it myself.