Procrastination, My Most Ironic Blog Post

Procrastination, My Most Ironic Blog Post

To procrastinate, or not to procrastinate, that is the question that will ever take the reigns of my life. I find myself writing this the night before the deadline where I must post my writing to be judged by the world, and most notably Mr. Ferrebee. Like Hamlet I tend to find myself in a whirlpool of impulsivity and half rational actions. I am a labeled procrastinator.

Like the author of the BBC article, my work is most likely to be completed 12 to 4 hours before it is due. I work when I am under stress and in dire need of completing something. Out of the article I have found my new favorite quote, "I love deadlines - I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." Story of my life. It is not only in academics that I procrastinate, but in my everyday life as well. My decision making process hits an all time climax minutes before the decision is to be made, or sometimes even afterwards when my life becomes clouded with regret. My essays are turned in as soon as my inbox crams up with angry emails from my parents living abroad and becoming fond of the new “missing assignment” email system. Like Hamlet I suffer from my indecisions and ponder doing something for longer than it takes to actually get it done. Killing King Claudius took Hamlet a mere fencing match. He ranted about it for a whole Shakespearean play. This blog post was pondered about for at least a week before I sat down, listened to every new song on Youtube, discovered a series or two, and finally got down to opening up a word document titled, “Procrastination.” Oh the irony.

Yet the truth is, as a human race we are al pre-formatted to be procrastinators. There are islands of floating plastic, yet we still resort to buying a 3 dollar water bottle. There are holes in the O-Zone, yet we still buy Hummers. Shakespeare knew before all of us that procrastination was a common human characteristic; inevitable, and the common cause of humanities lack of action. Unlike the author of “View Point: Why do we procrastinate so much?” I am realistic about my procrastination; those days will be never ending.