Introduction: Excuse me while I Procrastinate

“Scene”: The couch (procrastination mode on), Comfortable clothes (acquired), PC/MAC (check), Facebook tab (check), Youtube tab (check), Television (maybe, nothing interesting anyway) OR *enter here procrastination activity*-close scene. Nothing you don’t already know right? Now think how many times you did this for the past, let’s say year. Not that you don’t have anything to do: Assignments (pending), Motivation (Who? Where?), Life plans “Meh, I still have a few years, I mean months, I have a few days in university left, I will figure it out”. Occasionally though, PANIC, you can’t even imagine yourself working in the field you are studying, no experience, economic crisis, unemployment, grades don’t even matter and on top of that, no money, none, not even to go out (yet we do go out). I guess after that we are motivated enough………to get back to the “Scene”, do nothing and we’ll figure it out, PROBLEM SOLVED!

Is it just me, or does anyone else finds this as a case of insanity and self-destruction? But isn't that what everyone does? I mean you do find a job eventually. Why bother? It’s not our fault; we don't even want to study this anyway, so we just roll with it. Well, we are probably right about the last one and welcome to “What the hell are we doing here; let’s do what we were meant to”.

Go back to the scene, in that procrastination activity, lays the answer. First though, why that procrastination occurs, you don’t hate what you study (best case scenario! cutting us some slug, again). Simply you did not choose it and probably because you feel like you have an obligation to something/someone (aka yourself/family) to study something that will “get you a job”, “secure your future” you had to do it. It’s like we only make mistakes, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and that light might be a way out, or it might be “a train called reality coming to get you”. Now that we are done with the clichés it’s suggestion time.

Think about what you do when you procrastinate, that thing you do the most when you procrastinate. If you can't think of anything then search through that list and find what interests you the most, it could be anything, something you thought of doing but you were like “I will do it after I finish the assignments/exams” (like that is going to be done any time soon). It might be something you want to create, read, write, take a video off, research something, play a musical instrument, draw, sculpt, whatever it is, even if you are not familiar with it and everyone makes fun of you, do it.

You probably think I am really out of my mind here and you are too bored to do it, but let me ask you a question. Everything else failed to get you going, do you want solutions or excuses? You are the only one who can answer that.

Part 2… Proof: "Don't take my word for it".