Procrastination: The reason that it is nine o’clock in the morning and we’re already preparing for a heart attack.
Bobbin has two hours to write three more pages of a term paper, Ashley has music theory homework that she still has yet to find in the depths of her locker and we have to spend our valuable time writing yet another editorial because all of our others fell through.
Good ol’ Karma. Sometimes, when you think that you’ve learned from your mistakes, they come back and kick you in the face. After a year of running the editorials section, we’ve learned that you don’t only need a backup plan, you need several backup plans. And this article you have the pleasure of reading, this is plan e.
So what can we say about this? Well, procrastination is the demise of every teenager with any potential at all.
We’ve all fallen into this trap.
The first step to a solution is admitting you have a problem. Now, good teenagers of JC, we want you to raise your right hands, and repeat after us. We. Have. A Problem.
Now this may be difficult at first, because our natural response is to delude ourselves into thinking there is no problem…”I’m a good procrastinator. I always come up with a decent product in the end.”
Well you’re wrong. We would know. It doesn’t always work out as well as this article has. While we could break into our endless archive of experiences ruined by procrastination, we’ll save you the sob story.
So what can you do when you’ve got plans for the first five letters of the alphabet and nothing works out? Well, dear friends, we have decided to share some of our vast wisdom with you. In our considerable experience, we have learned that wit and charm have been enough to scrape by, but even we are afraid this luck is about to run dry.
Procrastination is not easy to solve. It seems like the only chance of succeeding is to turn yourself into a machine and do some old-fashioned hard work. And if this doesn’t sound appealing, we’re right there with you, in the depths of the black hole known as procrastination.
We’re working on an appealing solution, but…we’ll think of it later.