This is a topic that has been touched upon by many revolutionaries, bloggers, vloggers and my mother. Procrastination, ladies and gentlemen, our disastrously familiar frenemy. Regularly we deal with this little imp on our shoulders, coaxing us away from hard work with the promise of cookies, breaking bad and endless reruns of Friends. Even when we don't have these delightful, golden eggs of activity and excitement, we still find ways of avoiding work. You know you've hit rock bottom when you're procrastinating work by cleaning the dishes or folding laundry, or god forbid, doing other types of work. As a student, I am very familiar with this suffering, the nagging in my brain that is currently telling me that I should be revising biology, not updating my blog. Yet procrastination reminds me i have 5 days till my exam.
...Shit. 5 days.
The remedies to this affliction are dotted all over the internet, all over t shirts, all over company slogans. JUST DO IT. They say. NO, we reply. Inspirational articles, chastising our laziness, condemning the lack of productivity, concealing how they themselves are procrastinating procrastination by writing about procrastination. What a mouthful, wasted 5 minutes of revision with that one. Yet no number of inspirational quotes and photos of overly attractive and busty women exercising will encourage us to get up and work.
We are naturally programmed to ignore hard work and opt out for the easier and instantly satisfying options and I say embrace it. Accept the lack of useful productivity and use it to your advantage, use the time to finish off the draft of your post apocalyptic zombie-vampire manuscript, complete the marathon you've been training for, redecorate your house, the possibilities are endless.
Personally, I'm going to eat myself into a coma on the hope that I won't wake up in time for my exams.
