to procrastinate:
- to put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
- to postpone or delay needlessly.
This is a definition given by the dictionary. But what does it look like in practice? The video above shows exactly what procrastination is in real life. It`s reading a book, cleaning your apartment, taking a bath, going for a walk, watching tv, doing all these things which normally may not be something you like to do (like cleaning) but they seem seem to be fun when you have something more important to do. Procrastination is me, writting a few post at one, because I`ve waited for the last minute to do that. (Believe me, my room have never been so clean). I find this issue very interesting. Why do I do that? Of course there were times when I did something in advance. It felt great, I was prepared, had free evening, I was relaxed. But somehow all of this wasn`t enough to motivate me for the future. If there was some kind of training to stop being a procrastinator I would, for sure, postpone it until someone would threaten me that it`s really a deadline to do that.
Or maybe it`s just the way I am, maybe I was born like that and I shouldn`t change it, just accept it.
But what if I tell myself that just to justify my actions, and still be a procrastinator? Every semester I promise myself to study systematically, but during finals end up with panic attacks and way too much work to do.
Unfortunetely procrastination is becoming very common nowadays, I believe it`s due to new technologies which consume more and more of our time and are a perfect distraction.
Unfortunetely procrastination is becoming very common nowadays, I believe it`s due to new technologies which consume more and more of our time and are a perfect distraction.