So, after not having blogged for about a week, I feel inclined to voice a few opinions on a topic about which I have much knowledge. It is a problem that I feel is almost intrinsic in my nature and in that of many others around me. Throughout all of my years in school it has always been there, and has probably grown worse as and worse as I approach the end of my high school career. The subject that I bring to you reader's attentions today is that of procrastination.
Senioritis has taken a powerful hold over me and sometimes it seems near impossible to actually sit down to a task for school and simply get it done. Case in point: this Monday. We had a project given to us the week before where we were paired with partners. This was for economics and we had to basically become experts on one single economist and his or her theories.
Now, usually when another person's grade is involved, I get to work and make sure that I have everything done. It would not be fair for them to suffer because of my inadequacies. However, I put everything off that week and got next to nothing done. Then on Saturday I was packed full because I went to another school’s Prom. Sunday I had church, some extra meetings and another glut of procrastination.
So it is due Monday in third hour. I had taken upon myself the essay portion of the project and had accomplished little of it the night before. So I had all the necessary background information printed out and ready to go. I happen to have a zero hour and wrote a portion of it out in that class. I continued to write it in my first hour but did not finish completely. I have computer programming third hour, so I began typing it up and finished in that class. I got in my bibliography in well, and not a moment too soon, for the bell rang and off I was to third hour, when it was due.
Now, why put myself through that? I could have finished it at any time that previous week if I had set aside the time and actually worked on it. Granted, I worked harder in those few periods at school than I ever would have at home. It was crunch time and I went to work with a fury like no other.
What has everyone else experienced with procrastination, and why do you think it is sometimes so hard to overcome? Is it an intrinsic part of human nature to live in the now, and procrastinate til tomorrow? And what happens when that tomorrow never comes?
I know it is a problem that I do need to over come through basic willpower and personal drive. But, it just seems so difficult to bring myself to do so. Other activities take precedence over that which I don’t want to do at the time being and think to myself that I can do later. Procrastination is something that has pervaded my life on a common basis and it is something that is really hard to fight. What can I say, I am a sucker for living in the moment.
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