Thursday, February 21, 2013

I will stop procrastinating...tomorrow


I like to consider myself a responsible person. However, I am about as irresponsible as possible while still managing to turn my work in on time. Why is that, you may ask? The answer is simple; I am a victim of the "student's curse," the art of procrastination.

I call it an art because there are several ways one can procrastinate, if you don’t believe me ask Hamlet! Apart from incessant rants and endless tirades thinking about the task he has to carry out, he also manages to set up a play in order to confirm his suspicions, show his somewhat mixed feelings to the woman he loves, kill her father, enrage her brother and kill his mother. All for the sake of procrastination. Ingenious.

However, as I write this mere hours before it is due, I cannot help but wonder whether all procrastinators leave things until the last minute because maybe, in some level of our subconscious, we enjoy the rush of knowing time is running out and there is still work to be done. Or maybe we are masochists who enjoy doing other things while thinking about what we should be doing, yet continue to do whatever it is that is somehow impeding us from completing our task.  

The question we must ask ourselves is what do we get from procrastination? Is there a reason we do it time and time again? Doesn't it often result in increasing levels of stress, lack of sleep, and self chastising for not having finished it before? It does, yet we decide to change our ways some other day, we have more important things to do at the moment. Or do we?

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