There aren't any pros of procrastinating.

It's late Monday night, and you’re struggling to create an introduction that has the ‘wow’ factor. A few simple phrases that will launch you’re post, and debut your ideas, all tied up in a little package to demonstrate creativity and ability. Time however, is blocking the one path you wanted to travel down. As the clock ticks you have no choice but to finish. You enter panic mode. After freakishly and frantically scrambling to type the words, you re-read what you have so far. Displayed on the screen is the most utterly horribly written piece of writing you have ever seen. Your mind is blank and lifeless, as you have no conception how to formulate the flow of words. All you can think about is how this desperately needs to be done for tomorrow. How did it get to be Monday so suddenly? It felt like just yesterday that the blog topic was posted.

And then you ultimately realize: When you were hanging out with friends, the clock didn’t stop. When you were watching America’s Next Top Model, not once did it miss a tick. When you spent your whole night on the computer, stalking Facebook, and playing games, the seconds continued on. The clock has sneakily devoured all of your time. It has vanished, disappeared, and is entirely unable to retrieve. So why procrastinate?

It goes much deeper than a few computer games, and the click of a TV remote. Most of us procrastinate because we simply just don’t know where to start. We are stuck on where to begin, so the easiest solution is to hide your textbook and pull out your laptop. Or at least that seems the easiest. Unfortunately, eventually time catches up until the point where you have to finish that French project for third period, and you have absolutely no idea what it is you are exactly supposed to do.

You may just feel plain overwhelmed. With all those extra curricular activities, your best friends birthday party, and practicing for your piano recital, you just can’t fit anything else in. How does that leave a single shred of time for anything else at all? “I’ll just finish it later,” you may think. In the long run, that minor task will keep stacking up on your list of things to do, like a powerful wave in midst of becoming a tsunami. The end result becoming unmanageable and troublesome, trust me, I know.

I know for a fact I am a victim, and I’m sure you are too. Separating urgent tasks, from those less critical can be baffling. It is difficult to give in to going to the movies over studying for exams, or watching the newest episode of Glee, when you know you haven’t even scribbled a single number in your math workbook. Try to fight the urge to leave things until last minutes; I myself need to learn as well, as I primarily procrastinated this post. ;)