THINGS I OUGHT TO REALISE

I think I might make a list of 'Things I Ought to Realise'.

The trouble is, even making the list is actually redundant, as each item would no longer be a thing I ought to realise because I would have realised it enough to put it on a list, and therefore the list would be perpetually empty.

And you can't have an empty list. That's just a title.

I could ask someone else to do it for me? Things Matt Ought to Realise...

Dangerous. That could be a longer list than I imagine, and, by the way, several versions of that list probably do already exist in the minds of... well, pretty much everyone who knows me. One or two people would probably relish the chance of filling it in. Um... no names mentioned.

High on my unwritten list of Things I Ought to Realise though, would be that: "My need to eat always supercedes my need to meet."

That's a nifty way of saying it.

I got a text today telling me that "tonight's meeting is at 7pm." I will have no time to have dinner. So the Thing I Ought to Realise is that it really is okay to say:

"Fine but I'll be there at 7:30."

instead of what I actually said, which was:

"Rock 'n' roll. See you there."

... without even thinking about it.

So that's one item for the list.

Another great realisation which ought to be sinking through the thickness of my skull is the fact that "Earl Grey is okay."

I wonder whether everything on this list has to rhyme.

I accidentally made a cup of Earl Grey tea, and it turned out not to be as bad as I remember it. I dislike that it's top of the default 'posh' teas for most people when there are far posher blends out there, but actually... it's not terrible, especially when the bergamot is subtle.

That's two things on the list then.

And now that I have mentioned them, I will quickly add:

Things I realise are things I ought to realise, have been already realised by default

and

Not everyone is as interested in Things I Ought to Realise as they are in either Things They Ought to Realise or Things They've Already Realised about Me so I should probably stop going on about it.

... and then cross all four things off the list as quickly as possible.