I was going to post this sooner, but I have simply been too busy. You see, procrastination is my prevailing vice.
Procrastination has always been a big part of my life. As a little girl I would be tossing on my coat and grabbing a handful of Frosted Flakes thirty seconds before the bus was scheduled to arrive. In high school, I was memorizing lines for the play an hour before dress rehearsal. When I was in college, I was the student who wrote her paper at two in the morning. As a first year teacher, I was reading an excerpt of To Kill A Mockingbird the prep hour before I would teach it. When pursuing my Masters Degree in Education, I finished my final portfolio the morning I met with my supervising professor. Currently, I write letters of recommendations hours before students need them, I don’t clean off the kitchen table until I know there will be guests for dinner, I finish reading my book group novel the night before (sometimes minutes before) we are scheduled to get together, and I leave the house seconds before I need to in order to reach my destination on time.
I am well intentioned. I try extremely hard to not procrastinate. Nonetheless, I eventually procrastinate on my intentions…and then, well, I end up procrastinating. A prime example is my fiancés and my wedding, which is scheduled for June. Things started out great: the dress was picked out over a year before the wedding, invitations were ordered months before they needed to be mailed, and I just finished baking (and freezing) the cookies we will be giving out as favors. Still, I fear that the little tasks will catch me in the end. Will I have time to put together the gift bags for those who stay overnight at the hotel in Wisconsin? Will I have fit in a trip to get my toes and nails buffed and polished? Will I have found time to wrap a box for cards to be placed in? It’s inevitable: I will procrastinate on something at some point, I am sure.
People rarely realize that I am a procrastinator. Probably because I will push myself hard to complete a task, making sure it is done on time and to my intrinsic high level of expectations, even if I stress myself into a state of tears attempting to complete the task. I will sacrifice sleep, sanity, and emotional stability to carry out my responsibilities. If only I was not addicted to procrastination, but rather to blowing things off, then my life would be much more laid back.
5 comments:
I am the exact same way; somehow and some way I always manage to be up late that night finishing whatever I was doing. This is especially true for English papers I always seem to be writing them the night before and by 2 in the morning I'm just writing nonsense to fill the page. I'm sure if I started kind of early my writing would be a lot better. Maybe you should focus more time on the important stuff and less time on Farmville..
wow...my long comment just got deleted off here... now i must try to do it over... i have to say that i am the opposite.. when it came to homework i did it the night it was assigned. and while at school i would map out my entire night hour by hour. i made a list and followed it when i got home. This was how my life was until my senior year. I eventually just gave up and no longer did my homework. my room got cleaned only when i couldnt even see the floor, and i no longer plan anything out. i just live life on the edge. and i have to say i still strive for perfection, but in a more spontaneous fashion :)
I understand your problems with procrastination because I suffer with it myself. I am actually a week behind on most of my homework because one I procrastinate too much and too there have been a lot of things going on at homw that doesn't help with the procrastination.
I'm totally the same way. It's probably the reason my blogs are almost always posted on or the day before they are due. Perhaps if movies didn't exist I'd fine. It's just easier to justify myself by saying, "I'm not procrastinating, I'm brewing ideas."
I can SO agree with this.I swear it's an epidemic! Although I was never very organized nor did I ever really plan things out. Just rolled with the flow! I have gotten better over the years though. Although I seem to have gotten wirse with it being my senior year and all!
-Lauren Murphy
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