Procrastination by Andrea

by TastyJack Thursday, June 12, 2014 0 comments

 Hey guys! So I couldn't think of anything to write and instead of looking for ideas, I just palmed it off to a friend. Also, a little under the weather and exams etc.

SO HERE IT IS, Procrastination by Andrea.

What do you call the phenomenon that occurs when you have a multitude of spare time, but do nothing with it? It’s not procrastination, because I don’t actually have anything that I should be doing. Lack of self motivation, perhaps? Laziness, probably. But what will it take to motivate myself to do the extra little things that I can never fit in when I actually have things that I’m supposed to be doing? What happened to wanting to be crafty, or learning Spanish, or writing a book, or playing the piano? Now is the perfect time, but just about the only thing I can muster up the energy for is eating. Which is rather counterproductive. So, henceforth begins my proverbial stand against internal and self imposed laziness. Here begins a new era in my semester off, a promise that I make to you, reader of said blog.

From this day onwards, I will do at least one thing – one, tiny thing – that is important. The problem that I generally find is that I lack the self discipline to finish off any task, even if it is important or meaningful to me. So maybe, if I hold myself accountable to internet dwellers and phantom blog-readers of a blog that isn’t even my own, I will actually achieve something? It’s an interesting theory.

So, how do I define something ‘important’?

a) Something that has a positive effect on someone else’s day (no matter how small)
b) Something that involves going out of my comfort zone
c) Something that can be created and presented as a finished product

And what, you may be wondering, important task will I be performing today? That’s the hard bit. Actually deciding what I want to do. Writing this blog doesn’t count, because making promises is easy. Hell, this promise is just sounding more and more like a cop out – oh, I will do ‘something important’ ‘once a day’ – nothing has ever sounded vaguer.

Something that I’ve been meaning to do for a while is to write my own book. Aside from being a stimulating intellectual activity in and of itself, to actually finish a book must surely lend some sort of sense of achievement, right? I used to be a pretty creative child (it’s probably safe to say that engineering has sucked out any spare creative juices that I had lying around) but the number of purported novels that I began to write, with excellent premises and characters but just never had the motivation or initiative to finish is astounding. So, my (slightly more specific promise) to you is that I will begin and successfully FINISH writing a book.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

By Andrea