Procrastination...This word has plagued mankind since the beginning of time. Procrastination has been defined as the substance which robs one's time. You become trapped by responsibilities which should have been done. Instead of immediately completing these responsibilities, we place them to the side and replace necessary items of business with recreation or other, usually, non-equivocal activities. The outcome is paid for in full by large amounts of sweat and stress. At least that's usually the case for me. So, why does this happen? Why do we usually put off responsibilities until the last minute? After careful analysis on the many times I've personally procrastinated, I'm still not sure why. Perhaps I desire perfection. As wikipedia explains, "Procrastination is the deferment or avoidance of an action or task and is often linked to perfectionism." Now, that is a pretty unique definition that I never considered. I am referring to the perfectionism part. But, perfectionism is usually not the case. If I wanted an action or task to be perfect it wouldn't make me avoid or delay it. The only thing perfectionism (at least for me) would create would be the stress of whether or not the action/task was/was not good enough. Thus, if you take out that small part, you'd have a pretty good definition of procrastination. Yet, one thing is for certain…this whole site is an advocate of Procrastination. I must admit, while I created this site I could have been doing things more productive, and perhaps more constructive as well. However, you too could be tending to your responsibilities as well. So, I'd better let you go. Please stop reading. Stop Procrastinating and get back to work or studying…
Hmm…You're still reading? I suppose your responsibilities can wait. No doubt, this is much more entertaining than Physics or some other type of dreaded GE course (at least that would be my excuse). I know I would rather be reading mindless entries on websites than studying. Anyways, back to the question: Why do we procrastinate? I've been writing for a little while, and I still don't have a very good reason. Maybe we do better under stress…I know I do…sometimes. Well, actually not usually. However, there was only one time I can clearly recall that procrastination worked in my favor. To make a long story short I had a semester long paper (comparing/contrasting two novels) due within three days. The time I had before those three days was spent on other things (rock-climbing, doing other activities, and studying for other subjects I thought were more important). In the end, I read both books and wrote the paper in those three days. In the end I received an astonishing A. If you want all the interesting details you can ask me about it later. But, like I said before, I paid for it with stress and sweat. Even so, it seems that I will continually fall into the ever omnipotent hands of Procrastination. For some reason, I always seem to choose the path of stress and sweat. Consequently, many of my friends and family have told me to stop procrastinating. My reply is usually, "Okay! I'll start trying tomorrow."
