They say that all Pisceans should be fired from jobs, for no other reason but procrastination. I’m a Piscean, so you can expect this blog to be delayed! 90% of the people polled by Readers' Digest last November reportedly felt the need to put off a piece of job for later. This 'need' was such that they knew they'd be in a soup if the job was delayed, yet they didn't so much move a muscle in the direction of work.
But how nice it is to just lie back, and watch the sun go by! Only we forget that it is on the journey around to come up and catch you from behind the next day. My fellow procrastinator in school once said, "The nicest way to watch a person work is over the rim of my coffee cup!" This more than goes a long way to fix the link between procrastination and plain old 'lazy-bum' syndrome.
Take me for instance (again). I know that I’m a goner if I don't write up my record today. Or if I don’t sit up and do my assistantship work. Or if I don’t wash my toilet, fill water in my bottle or take out the garbage. all i want to do is just sit by, glancing at the clock in a cursory way every now and then, and forever re-scheduling my work to fit my eternal putting-off habit.
The best part, though, is the way people like me handle the repercussions. I sometimes live under the false mask of a "responsible and mature" Sumanth, as oft referred to by my peers and teachers alike. If only they knew! Last Tuesday (which was a half-day); I convinced my friend Anudhan that doing C++ programs isn't a bad idea. He ended up doing my SAP work for me! The glory of chance, of good fortune! But the just principle-ist that I am, I decided to pay him for his work.
This, and a lot of the usual and more articulate Murphy’s laws cannot have done a better job of driving this point home - "Don't put off till tomorrow what you can put off till day-after tomorrow!!"
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