Editorial PERSPECTIVE:
Procrastination does a body bad By RILEY BREWER RILEY@RCHSEAGLESNEST.ORG
As the school year picks up momentum, many students are falling prey to the monster commonly known as procrastination. Why do we procrastinate? Sometimes the alternatives to working are just too tempting while the work itself feels without reward. Often, people simply allow themselves to adopt the “I’ll do it later” policy because they “just don’t feel like” working now. We seniors especially seem to live the procrastinator’s way of life, doing in advisory period what could have—and rightfully should have—been done the night before. However, the more I begin to find myself postponing assignments or chores whose eventual completion is necessary, the more I realize that I—and all of my fellow procrastinators—am wasting the most precious and indiscriminate gift given: life. All of us are granted a single lifetime
to accomplish our goals and to impact the world. Whether your goal is to be a stayat-home mom whose memory will live on most vividly in her children or to become a world-renowned performer whose abilities are immortalized in film and literature, you have only so much time to make these dreams come true. When we procrastinate, we seem to think that we are making our lives more enjoyable and therefore making the best of what time we do have. But, this way of thinking does not fully realize the true consequences of procrastination. The true consequences of procrastination are found when you spend an entire week worrying about writing an essay but do not actually sit down and work until
the day before it is due, or when you do not receive as high a grade as you would like on a test because you neglected to study until five minutes before the test started and then spend the next week worrying about how your average has been affected. In either situation, life is not at all more enjoyable, and we have wasted valuable time that we can never regain by worrying about the results of our procrastination. In the end, you will worry about these assignments for a longer period of time than they actually take to complete. How is spending a week dreading writing an essay a better, more enjoyable use of our short time? A single lifetime is enough to accomplish great things, and all of us here today
“All of us are granted a single lifetime to accomplish our goals and impact the world.
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are enjoying the thrills of living: breathing fresh October air, rooting for our favorite football team, learning all that we can (maybe even learning the joys of love or real friendship!), and becoming a new person every day, reborn with the fresh knowledge that each day brings. Of course, not all of these aspects of living will come to us naturally. Rather, we have to work to make the best of what we have and of who we are. But, how can we do this if we spend all of our time worrying about what has to be done and what should have already been done? Let us all try our best in the new winter season to truly enjoy life to its fullest extent by not letting our minds be bogged down with a thousand undone tasks. Instead, do what needs to be done now, and then spend the rest of your time enjoying all that life has to offer. This will be hard to do, but I have complete faith that this task—unlike yesterday’s math homework—will be completed by all who undertake it.
Oops! We were wrong... Mr. Hudson writes, well, not a letter exactly, but: Yes, we doubted the Master, and changed his spelling of a tasty fish to that of a, well, un-tasty haberdashery component. Between ‘brims’ and ‘croppies,’ we just wish these fishermen would learn how to speak straight! Apologies to Mr. Hudson for monkeying with his impeccable spelling, and other sportsmen who may have caught the error!
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