Personal Essay: Self Deceit And Procrastination

If it hasn’t been discovered by the outside world already, my shadow would have to be self doubt. Quite frankly, I believe the shadows I have impacted my life tremendously. Self doubt and procrastination are the biggest shadows that interfere with my life and make me turn into the person who I loathe the most. The presence of these two factors always surrounding me at every moment sets me up for failure, holding me back from wanting to always go above and beyond to excel in the things I have always wanted to be great at. These shadows have limited my ability to be the best student, athlete, child, and person. Obviously, if it were not for the wretched and despicable presence of my shadow Procrastination, this essay would have been in on time. I, in my own opinion, would be one of the best students in this english class, perhaps in the senior class. I would not have to have the mounds and mounds of stress, piling on more everyday making it hard for me to even think, speak, and act upon doing the tasks that need to be completed. Without my god awful shadow of procrastination, I would be better than who I am right now, I would go on to actually accomplish great things, without leaving them unfinished midway. Without my shadow of procrastination, I would actually have superb grades and my student life …show more content…
In order to overcome that happening, I must overcome my shadows. On paper, it seems rather easy, but once one steps into my own shoes and goes through what I have to deal with on a daily basis, they can see how it is not easy at all. To my way of thinking, that is why they are called shadows, they follow you around. The concept is this, the shadow describes the aspects of our personalities that we choose to reject and repress. In order to overcome the presences of our own shadows, we must learn how to heal and to integrate