Well, I have a lot to do today.
With my heavier workload, I have decided to spend my time blogging instead. This is just how procrastination works for me; I don’t even have a subject in mind yet of what I would like to write about, but blogging is something that does not need to get done, and therefore it is this very thing that I am doing. I was hoping that in the process of introducing the reason that I am writing today, I would have figured out a good topic to write about, but that has not happened yet, and so I am still filibustering.
I think I will just go with procrastination:
You must understand that I hate stress and try to avoid stressing out, even when I am in stressful situations. People who know me sometimes get frustrated because I am “flexible,” which basically means I just let other people make the decisions like where to eat and what to do, that kind of stuff. So when it comes to stress, I thought I figured out this clever little system. Whenever I figure out what it is that I need to do, I just think about a good time when I can do it and then forget about it. An example might be that I find out that I have a test coming up on Friday. I might say “I am not doing anything Wednesday night, so I will study then” or something like that. This works out really well for someone like me, who just likes being laid back and doesn’t like experiencing stress, because I don’t need to worry about that huge test anymore, I can just think “I’ll do it then” and then go and play PlayStation or something.
My roommate doesn’t understand this as well as I do. It will be Tuesday afternoon and I will just be playing a video game or something meaningless like that. He will remind me, “you need to study for that test on Friday” to which I reply “I am doing that tomorrow,” but then he sees that even though I am doing it tomorrow, I am not doing anything right now so why can’t I just to it right now. I can’t do it right now because it is not on the schedule until tomorrow!
I’m exaggerating, I don’t do that all the time.
Alright, so this system works well until procrastination enters. I don’t always do the things that I say I will do when I say I will do them. Sometimes I waste time writing posts for a blog that nobody will read when I should be doing work. But look at it from my perspective: I don’t want to do this work. I still don’t like stress, but at this point my way of dealing with it is by still not thinking about the stuff I need to do, even though at this point I really should worry about it.
Hey, I will do it eventually.
