Saturday, April 28, 2007

Why procrastinate?

Every day we see people who procrastinate and we see the consequences. They are very rarely positive consequences. People likely do this for more reasons than one. Today...tonight I will examine these reasons. I'll try to dig to the heart of the different types of and reasons for procrastinating. This really shouldn't be too hard, considering that there is a side of procrastination in all of us... somewhere... I think.
The first reason for procrastination would be the dread of doing something due to its boring or undesirable nature. People don't want to do things that aren't fun. It's a fact of life. This is one reason where there are some who struggle, and some who refuse to because they want to enjoy their time later. Unlike some of the other likely reasons, this one is avoidable by simply getting the boring over with to enjoy the better.
The second reason that people procrastinate is because of their fear. When a human fears something they subconsciously set it aside and procrastinate it. This is kind of funny that our nature leads us to do this because we end up putting ourselves through more when we procrastinate the things that we fear most.
Thirdly, people forget. I don't know if this counts as procrastination, but I think it does in some circumstances. When we forget about something, it may come to mind at an inconvenient time, causing us to put it aside until a later time (which may turn out to be too late).
Finally, I think that people procrastinate because of their busy lives. This is one of the reasons that I do the most of my procrastination (which I try to keep under control for the most part). We often have so many things going on that we simply do not have time to do everything. I often need to find time for a break, putting off things I should do.
While procrastination isn't good, we all do at some point. After seeing all of the different ways that it can happen, I think it's safe to say that as long as we keep it in check, a little bit of procrastination won't kill us. This is, of course, if we don't put off extreme things . Well, I'm going to go to bed. I'm sorry if this isn't very analytical. I procrastinated it and am writing it at like 10:45 on Saturday night. I'm tired. I want to go to sleep. I did my best. Love ya'll. Bye.

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