For some people procrastinating is not a verb in their vocabulary. I don\u2019t understand how that\u2019s possible, but some people just make action plans and stick to them. I, on the other hand, make plans and usually wait until the last minute to do said plan.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t advocate for procrastinating, but let me tell you how to be the slowest poke of slowpokes to ever slow poke.<\/p>\n
Procrastinating isn\u2019t all that hard to do. There\u2019s a couple of ways to do it. Getting off topic from the task at hand is one of those ways.<\/p>\n
There was this one time when I lived in Tennessee, and I saw the biggest, nastiest, slimiest slug outside on my nanny\u2019s porch. It was disgusting and slugging around incredibly slow. So, being the mean little human that I was, I poured some salt around it like a maze. I\u2019m sure you can imagine how that ended for poor little slug.<\/p>\n
As I was saying, procrastinating is something that just sometimes happen from getting off topic. You\u2019ll be thinking about that English paper you need to write. What was the topic? Oh, animal cruelty.<\/p>\n
Look up topics on animal cruelty and you\u2019ll find some pretty disturbing images. From there you\u2019ll end up thinking about horror movies.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll end up looking up who the actors are in the movies. Then you\u2019ll see someone who was in that one movie with that one guy. It just becomes a hot mess from there, and soon it\u2019s three in the morning and you\u2019re looking at cat videos. Again.<\/p>\n
Procrastination can also come from being forgetful. Sometimes you just get so busy with life and all the troubles it brings that you forget when you have assignments, projects and tasks due whether it be for work or school. Or maybe you\u2019re just becoming senile.<\/p>\n
Either way, forgetting an assignment or task can lead to some serious all-nighters or poorly written papers. Or, if you\u2019re like me, you can write your best papers when you wait until the night before it\u2019s due to write it. It\u2019s okay; not everyone can be Brittany Love.<\/p>\n
There was one time when I was a senior in high school and wrote my 10-page research paper the night before it was due. It was a position paper on decriminalizing prostitution. I made an A.<\/p>\n
Seriously, that off-topic thing I mentioned earlier, it\u2019s real!<\/p>\n
Waiting until the last minute can get you into some trouble though. When you wait too long, you\u2019ll end up not having a plan for getting a task done and you\u2019ll start to ramble or improvise. If you\u2019re good at improv, then go for it, but we can\u2019t all be you. Can we? That would be weird. Just a million yous walking around Sinclair.<\/p>\n
I guess if you wanted to ramble in a paper you could. My advice though is to make it sound like it fits with the topic you\u2019re supposed to be writing about.<\/p>\n
For example, I chose \u201cprocrastination\u201d as my topic a week before I started writing this piece. I had some ideas I wanted to do with this, but I didn\u2019t have a clear direction. I came to Starbucks, sat down and just started writing whatever sounded good. My excuse: authenticity!<\/p>\n
Being lazy and not caring is another great way to be a procrastinator. I would actually say that\u2019s the ultimate way to become the supreme procrastinator. If you don\u2019t care about anything, then you can just put it all off until the very end or never do it at all. That last bit kind of defeats the purpose of being a pro-crast-i-na-tor though.<\/p>\n
There are times when we, as humans, just don\u2019t care. I didn\u2019t care about this one section in my religion class last semester so I flat out didn\u2019t read it. I had planned on it, but I never got around to it.<\/p>\n
Overall, if you want to procrastinate your way through life just remember to wait until the last minute to do anything, not really care about said things and always get off topic.<\/p>\n
(This Starbucks I\u2019m in is actually really fancy, guys. They serve wine here.)<\/p>\n
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