Sunday, July 1, 2007

Seven and a half good reasons why procrastinators procrastinate



1) In the highly magnificent circle of life, time plays a major part in everything that happens. It is the very core of it all. A procrastinator, in defying time and twisting the great circle of life to fit into his or her own warped schedules, technically becomes a master then, of everything in the universe!

2) They are always late, so tomorrow always seems the better day to do it.

3) It’s interesting to see if the person on the receiving end will buy your excuses of your grandmother dying a second death. Coming up with probable excuses is more of a daunting challenge and that appeals to some people so much so that they create scenarios in which they could silently giggle at outwitting the other person with a dumb excuse.

4) They believe in the over-rated importance of inspiration hitting them, and wait for it to happen. This can lethally take up to weeks, months and billions of seconds of endless, fruitless waiting, and when they finally get down to business, they’ll find that the inspiration they were looking for was always there. Only thing they couldn’t see it.

5) Which brings me to the fifth point: They never learn! A procrastinator can dish up brilliant work when they are finally forced, and then they look at what they’ve done and they go “oh, well that was interestingly easy. I could have done that ages ago,” but the next time they are given something to do they always opt to do it some other time. They never learn.

6) The whole idea of borrowed time is so tempting and makes it look as if you’ve got loads of hours on you shoulders today even though you’ll be cramped tomorrow.

7) And they are lazy.
Plus, they always have something better to do.

7 1/2) Their existence spices up the gene pool and contributes to the concept of ‘variety in people’! True! After all, it does take all sorts of people to form a world!
Half a reason, because it’s not a reason really…. it just makes a procrastinator feel better!

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