Tomorrow Never Came

“Procrastination is the thief of time.”- Edward Young.

Procrastination can be very tempting. The most apt adjective to describe the feeling you enjoy when you put off important things is “sweet”. Procrastination can be sweet. Someone once told me that the best way to battle procrastination is to just do it. This is the same thing motivational speakers would tell you. They’d tell you that procrastination hinders success and that you should just do it. It is true that procrastination hinders success. It is also true that it is the thief of time, but is it really easy to JUST DO IT? Consider this scenario; you come back late from what seemed like a forever-long lecture. It is 11pm and your body is tight, your legs are heavy and you can barely move them. Your mind is not blank because the only thing on it is to get to your apartment, take off your clothes, jump on the bed, and sleep. Now, immediately you enter your house and are about to jump on the bed, you remember that you have an assignment to do. In this scenario, do you think it would be easy to “JUST DO IT?”

I have had ugly experiences with procrastination. In my third year in the university, I took a course on Discourse Analysis. That course gave me nightmares, and I’ll make sure I keep telling people the story whenever the opportunity arises. It is a totally different thing when your friends understand a course you don’t. Or maybe you understand a course that your friends are finding difficult. That way, you can teach each other. But when no one in your click understands it, that’s dangerous. That was exactly what that course did to us. From the beginning of the semester, we all knew the course would give us problems. It was bulky and complex. Instead of starting early and reading it bit by bit, we kept procrastinating, saying “we will start reading tomorrow.” Our tomorrow never came, but you know what did? Exams! Exams came knocking and that course made a lot of people cry.

For this week’s Sci-Fi multiverse prompt, the community asks us if we are procrastinators. Well, I wouldn’t call myself a procrastinator, but I sometimes procrastinate. I don’t know if that makes sense. I try as much as possible not to procrastinate, but sometimes it just happens. As I mentioned, I have had ugly experiences with procrastination. There was a time last semester when I didn’t feel like doing my dishes. I used literally all the plates and cups in my house. I would keep saying, “I will wash the plates later.” I’m not always like this, but I was in a phase at the time. One, two, three, and on the fourth day, I had an unexpected visitor. Surprisingly, they went directly to my kitchen and saw a heap of dirty plates, Al thought they didn’t say anything, I was so embarrassed. I washed the plates right after they left.

I can’t seem to place my hands on the things that make me procrastinate. It happens like a phase. The community also asks if 24 hours a day is enough to accomplish your activities for the day. In my opinion, 24 hours is pretty fair. If there were more than 24 hours a day, people would still procrastinate.

Thanks for reading.