Thujongolu
Modern Higher Secondary School
It is said that “Procrastination is the thief of time”. WHY? One very common example seen in a student’s life, which I am sure everyone can relate to is, a student postpones studying by browsing social media or playing games, promising themselves for a few minutes rest which in turn goes up to hours, and ends up doing badly on their exams because they didn’t have enough time left to study. And that’s the repeated excuse we commit everyday.
Everyone procrastinates. We are so used to keeping things for the next day that we don’t realize we are losing so much time. Infact, it has become part of our daily habits. By the time we realize making a mistake of procrastinating, it is often too late to go back in time. If only we did everything in time instead of rushing at the end, we would have saved ourselves from so much unnecessary stresses and energy. But no, we wait until the end, even after knowing the consequences we are going to face and stress over it. The funny thing is we are actually good at remorse. Instead of accepting that it is our fault, we get angry, upset, sulk and whine as we regret the outcome.
Procrastination is that little devil sitting over your shoulder whispering “Wait till later”, which you should be avoiding. The more we delay tasks, the more they pile up and weigh us down, and the more we lose out on many things. As time passes, we only get more demotivated and lazy. We are a generation of dreamers. We dream but we refuse to get up from bed and get things done. We talk but don’t ever practice what we preach. Once you procrastinate there is no escaping it.
Why do we procrastinate? When we look at ourselves as a perfectionist, we tend to always put off things that are unknown, unfamiliar or something new because we fear that we might not be able to do it correctly. We fear of making mistakes and fear the rejections or the feedbacks. We tend to overestimate how much one can achieve in a certain timeframe.
Procrastination can be easily solved by taking up responsibilities and being motivated. If you find the task to be too big or exhausting, break the task down into bits, put a timer and take up one task after the other. This will give you a feeling of constant achievement and progress. Remember “Time is free, but it is priceless, you can’t own it but you can use it, you can’t keep it but you can spend it, but once you lose it you can never get it back”.
P.S. When you get distracted from your studies, and all you think about is snuggling up in your warm bed, shift your study books and materials to the other room, preferably next to your parents room. It helps.
