Procrastination

      In the year of 2011, exactly on  a monday morning , I had acciently slept in; thanks to staying up all night wasting time oing not important things. In fact it was twelve o'clock pm, and I ha nothing to do for the rest of the day. I sit in front of the laptop after I had washed up, staring at the screen with my fingers clicked on different pages. Then i realized i have a rough draft that was due on Thursday, but I justify my procastination with reasons like "I have a lot of time left to get it done."

Today people are usually supposed to be organized and keep plans in order to keep up; however, it seems to me the people are procrastinating more than ever. When I asked some friends and family why they tend to procastinate, they often say the basic reasons such as: It won't take me long to finish this, the pressure makes me work better and more quickly, there was an emergency and I on't have time at the moment, and other things along that catergory. Some of those reason sound pretty fair, but I think these reasons are just excuses for the inividiual's fear of failing or the fear of lost security.

In 10th grade, when I used to attened a traditional high school, My friend Selina dropped out of school because of her bad grades. As her friend, I knew she was doing alright until the final exams. She is a smart and responsible person, laziness is not a factor of her bad grades. Selina couldn't pick up the books soon enough before the exam because she was afraid to fail. Since Selina's older brother had achieved excellence academic records an a great career, Selina's parents expected her to follow in her brothers foot steps . Because of the pressure from her parents, Selina was afraid to try because she feared to fail her parents expectations. But when she realized the problem it was too late.

It was around 4 in the morning. the computers on coffee in  my favorite mug was quickly dissapearing with another pot of coffee on brew, and  I'm under a lot of stress. "There isn't a lot of time left," I say to myself as I look at the blank page in front of me. "I can do this," I keep encouraging myself while my mind can't think of zero ideas for the essay; which is due in  six hours from now. This is a situatuion where I just start writing   my paper six hours before the due date. I was given  one weeks to  complete this essay, but I could not put my mind on the assignment until i felt the stress from the limitated time. I did have spare time and thoughts of writing the essay within the one week, but my tendency laziness won the battle over my sense of responsibility.