Procrastination: Can it be beat?

Your blood pumps furiously through your veins five minutes before third period ends. Your handwriting reaches incomprehensibility more with every word you write. The bell rings and you write the last word of an essay that was assigned by your fifth period teacher last Monday.
Procrastination is a terrorist that we ourselves allow into our homes. We give it food and drink, we treat it as a guest, and we make a bed for it that is never far from our own.
If we realize that procrastination brings us nothing but tribulations, why do we allow it? Why do we permit the existence of such a disgusting monster to inhabit our lives?
The truth is, we love procrastination. It is a luxury we have come to want and need in our lives. It is a wall we lean on that has overcome us and engulfed us. Indeed, when we let go and give procrastination control over our lives, we become part of this horrid wall.
So, like any other addiction, when we want to let go of procrastination, when we want to come out of the wall, we can’t. We’re stuck watching others live their lives, ignoring the wall. We’re stuck watching the wall trick a few others into helping it grow. We’re simply stuck.
So we do we do? Is it the end? Are we destined to spend the rest of our lives suffering as helpless victims of procrastination?
Only you can take the first step in ridding yourself of this horror. No one can help you. No one can save you from the thorns of procrastination. Only you can.
You can’t take the time procrastination stole from you back. But you can prevent it from taking any more of your time. Time is precious and it is the worst thing anything can steal from you. So destroy that monster, for you are the only one who can give it life. Remind yourself that you gave procrastination its power and you can take it away.
Remember, when banishing this evil fiend, don’t procrastinate. You’d only be giving it strength.

- Rayssa Gomes

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