I’m sitting here writing away in the later stages of the night, when I should be fast asleep after having completed my meager and easily manageable hours of homework, exercise and routine music practice. But I’ve delayed so much, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who wonders how time slips by as easily as sand between one’s fingers – and after having accomplished nothing at all! Outrageous! Preposterous! Is this even legal?
I guess I procrastinate guiltily: whereas the regular kind involves doing something fun that could at least make one happier, I sit on my bed and randomly get up to fix that piece of paper that isn’t quite at a right angle to the sides of my desk, or read some random article that leads to another, and consequently another… I’m trying to allot time specifically for procrastination; planning an hour doing nothing is much better than trying in vain to be productive and miserably thinking of other things… right? (If you’re a student and you’re scoffing at procrastination, you aren’t human. Hop back into your spaceship and get off our planet.)
So in attempt to help your (and my own) procrastination become more effective in relieving stress, here are some things I think would work!
1. Watch some YouTube videos! I really like the Ted-Ed channel here; the content is interesting and some riddles just make me give up and gape in awe while they explain the solution. On a more serious note, there’s psychologist Dr. Jordan B Peterson’s channel where he posts lectures he gives to his uni students – I don’t watch unless I have a lot of time: they last an hour or more and I can’t bring myself to stop listening. (But there’s always time for things that aren’t homework… heh) I also browse channels that like to challenge social norms, like PragerU and 1791.
2. Try exercising! Oh, no… I can already feel the scalding hatred being directed towards me. I find that the pain of exercise makes me feel like I’m doing something so I don’t need to feel guilty about sitting around. But the instant I think of it as a routine, since I’m bored so often and I resort to it a lot, I don’t want to do it anymore. Weird, eh? But, by all means, don’t do it if you think I’m being ridiculous.
3. Look at memes! I’m pretty sure everyone has done this before to some extent, but I love my daily dose of memes. There’s almost a sort of hierarchy to the “dankness” that memes possess; as you see more and more of the regular memes you no longer become satisfied with those typical ones. There’s always something out there for people at all levels of humor. (Although I do have to warn that some may suggest uncomfortable or even unacceptable notions, memes are intended to be comedic; I ideologically disagree with the vast majority of memes I laugh at.)
I hope these suggestions help make your procrastination more fulfilling and satisfy your needs so you can get back to being productive. Thanks for reading!
