“Procrastination is opportunity 's assassin.” The entrepreneur Victor Kiam perfectly captures my daily tiresome, tedious and irksome struggle to complete the Everest sized pile of what I would refer to as simply ‘stuff’ to do. If my pile of ‘stuff’ to do is as big as a mountain, then Procrastination is an earthquake, snowstorm and avalanche combined, completely and utterly obliterating any hope of me doing anything productive, leaving only the ruins of my plan and any work I was meant to do behind. If Picasso is a master of painting and Mozart a musical prodigy, then I am the maestro of Procrastination. Being such a genius of the art that is procrastination I have the special capability to procrastinate without even knowing I am procrastinating.
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I then fall back asleep, fulfilling my primal instincts as a sixteen year old boy, arising about two and half…three hours later, slowly dragging myself out of bed and to the shower. After this point I’d probably check Facebook a few times, answer any messages I may have from my classmates and friends. The majority of these messages are from people who have forgotten what homework we had, are stuck or most likely of all are procrastinating also, and I reply in a fashion that conveys that I both know what we are doing and have finished it, satisfying the sender even though I have no idea what they just asked me. Following this, breakfast (or lunch, depending on the time I’ve woken up, I could still be quite delusional), I enter the most dangerous part of my day. I view this …show more content…
I’m not quite sure what I mean by ‘of greater importance’, I for one am not exactly working on winning the Nobel Peace Prize for solving the Middle East Crisis (however I can waste a considerable amount of time reading about how to solve the Middle East Crisis on Wikipedia, whilst I’m meant to be doing maths homework) but I believe that I could be spending valuable time doing notable things that people will remember me for positively after I die in order to write in my obituary rather than only being able to say that “he completed the higher maths differentiation homework and gained a solid eighty seven
I then fall back asleep, fulfilling my primal instincts as a sixteen year old boy, arising about two and half…three hours later, slowly dragging myself out of bed and to the shower. After this point I’d probably check Facebook a few times, answer any messages I may have from my classmates and friends. The majority of these messages are from people who have forgotten what homework we had, are stuck or most likely of all are procrastinating also, and I reply in a fashion that conveys that I both know what we are doing and have finished it, satisfying the sender even though I have no idea what they just asked me. Following this, breakfast (or lunch, depending on the time I’ve woken up, I could still be quite delusional), I enter the most dangerous part of my day. I view this …show more content…
I’m not quite sure what I mean by ‘of greater importance’, I for one am not exactly working on winning the Nobel Peace Prize for solving the Middle East Crisis (however I can waste a considerable amount of time reading about how to solve the Middle East Crisis on Wikipedia, whilst I’m meant to be doing maths homework) but I believe that I could be spending valuable time doing notable things that people will remember me for positively after I die in order to write in my obituary rather than only being able to say that “he completed the higher maths differentiation homework and gained a solid eighty seven