The Curse of the "Should Haves"

What if there was a town where everyone had the curse of the should haves. Whenever they did something they would doubt themselves and think they should have done something else. Then they would begin doing something else, but wonder if they should have completed the first thing. Where would they be if they realized that washing the dishes was good, but they stopped doing it to do laundry which is also a good thing, but it was a bad thing to stop the one and do the other so they think they should have finished the dishes first. But then they realize that if they had finished the dishes first then the laundry would not have been dry in time. Therefore what they did was good, except it wasn't good because the dishes were still undone.

And what would happen if a man entered the town, never having know any "should haves", but only "dids" and "did wells." Would he love them or would he give up on them? Would he feel compassion, or disgust? If he did have compassion, would he help them do all their tasks, and think through them so they didn't have should haves? Or would he laugh at the people under the curse? No, I think he would he teach them to laugh at themselves. He would pity them, and see that the problem really isn't the "should haves" but confusion about what is best. He would teach them what was best, but for those times when there were two bests, he would help them do their best at both things.

And he would laugh - a rich, confident, beautiful laugh.