I’ve been meaning to write this post for a couple of months now…
Get it? Ha ha. Oh, I’m so funny… It’s too bad I’m serious. I really have been meaning to make this post for a while… The cruel irony that is my life.
I procrastinate everything. If I knew I could make a million dollars by, say, working on a software program for only a day, I’d put off that day for years. This is why nobody needs to fear me taking over the world. I’d get started but decide to put it off for years and years. It’s already kept the world safe for, oh, 6, maybe 7, years now.
I keep telling myself that I need to fix this bad habit of mine, but I always decide it can wait a while longer. There’s plenty of projects I would have to work on if I wasn’t so bad at putting them off. This is especially a problem when the projects are cool, or something I’d actually like to do. By validating them and saying “I’d like to do this” I suddenly and uncontrollably lose all ability to keep from putting it off.
Grades are obviously affected as well. I often put off studying and homework assignments until the last possible moment. Like my English journals, 10 were listed on the syllabus from the very beginning of the class. I was quite aware of them, yet I waited until days before they were due to start working on them. I’d like to say that this helps the quality of the papers or something… but it doesn’t. Procrastination just makes life more stressful, especially when you find you’ve procrastinated too long and cannot physically finish the project without breaking some rules, or even the laws of physics.
So there you have it Ð procrastination Ð your friend and mine. Let’s hope he doesn’t delay my studying for the upcoming Calculus final, because I’d really like to pass Calculus II.
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