The Art of Procrastination

Procrastination. What is procrastination?

Procrastination - to put off until another day or time; defer; delay.

PROCRASTINATION - to screw around instead of doing what you're supposed to be doing and to be more entertained while doing it.

It's one thing to be like: "Procrastinating is the most fun thing EVER! Hey Joey, you wanna come over to my house and procrastinate?" You see, that right there just doesn't happen. Why? Because, procrastination knows better. Procrastination will hide around the darkest corners of your mind... and wait.

One minute:

Then the next:

Procrastination can sneak up on you, or it could do this other thing where it tricks you into 'accepting' it. It goes a little something like this: "Hey I totally should be doing my geometry homework right now, but completing world 3-3 on Super Mario Bros. 3 is far more important!" Now this kind of procrastination isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, if you have good time management skills, it could be the greatest thing ever! Let's say... you have geometry homework due tomorrow, that's about 3 hours from now. Start by just accepting the fact that you're going to procrastinate, then dedicate 2 hours to Super Mario and 1 hour to geometry... just make sure you leave enough time to finish your geometry homework.

Now while accepting your tendency to procrastinate and using your procrastination time wisely is fun, tricking somebody else into procrastinating is almost twice as fun! For example... writing out a blog post with pictures to keep them intrigued. Not only are you, the writer, procrastinating but so is your audience! It's brilliant!

Now since we're talking about procrastination anyway, I've decided to demonstrate an actual example of procrastination; not finishing this blog post. Why? Because if I don't use my time to conclude this post, I can more aptly use my time to discuss random stuff that makes no sense important issues. For instance, if you find an orphaned baby seal choking to death on a discarded pickle, help it out. I cannot tell you how many times I see this. It's not that hard to realize "Oh crap! An orphaned baby seal is choking to death on a discarded pickle! Time to use my ultimate 'opposable thumb' powers to dislodge said pickle." (if you replaced that last sentence with "Oh crap! I put my jeans on the 'delicate' setting by mistake!" then shame on you)

So let's review. What is procrastination?

Is it something you do for fun? Is it realizing to yourself that you should be doing something else (like your geometry homework)? Is it neglecting the fact that baby seals are in danger?

Nope.

Procrastination is magic.

(Now quit reading this and go do your geometry homework)