The Dangers of Procrastination

Hello Class of Two Thousand and Twenty-two, look at how far we have come.  For those of you who don’t already know, we are hopefully graduating very soon.  For some of us, finishing the rest of our schoolwork these last couple of weeks has been easy, others have found it very challenging, and some aren’t finished yet.  Me?  I am one of the lucky few who are still sprinting to the finish line and wrapping up the rest of their schoolwork.  This might seem shocking, since we only have a day or two of school left, but it is the reality.  The reason behind my circumstances is “procrastination”, which is pretty much the fancy word for being lazy.

Unfortunately, procrastination has been a recurring theme throughout my high school career.  I can’t say that I’m proud of this fact, since it has caused me a ton of stress and cost me some opportunities, but this still doesn’t stop me from procrastinating more and more.  Take this assignment for example, I kept putting off writing it over and over again, and about twelve hours ago I was stressing out about getting this done.  This is not an isolated incident, countless times I have found myself doing the same thing, whether it’s for sports eligibility or ultimately passing a class.  Even though I end up having good time management in the end, I still end up going through a ton of stress when I could have just gotten it done when the work was assigned.  Not only do I go through a lot of stress, but the quality of my work usually isn’t as good as it could have been.  (This assignment is, of course, an exception).  Many times I have looked at the “4 option” of an assignment and thought about how I could easily accomplish it.  Most of the time the “option” is eliminated due to me running out of time.  Procrastination just isn’t worth the hassle, since it is very stressful and it holds you back from unleashing your full potential.

I don’t know why I keep doing this to myself.  It’s not like I don’t have enough time to get my assignments done, I’m not a very busy person, I am just extremely lazy.  The truth is, procrastinating turns you into the worst version of yourself.  Just the other day, when I was watching my fellow classmates perform their “commencement addresses”, rather than thinking about how good of a job they were doing, I was too busy thinking about how I can plagiarize their speeches and get away with it.  (joke).  I clearly didn’t end up plagiarizing any of them since those speeches were great and I am wasting your time with this trash.  Still procrastinating is not worth it because of the person you end up becoming. 

The overall lesson of my speech is basically, don’t procrastinate, because it isn’t worth it.  I would like to think that I have learned this lesson about procrastinating, but I really probably haven’t.  Procrastination is like an addiction that you just keep relapsing with, and I hope to someday be sober.  It will not be easy, but someday I am going to eliminate the word, “procrastinate” from my vocabulary.  I will learn my lesson any day now… trust me.

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