Procrastinating

The idea of procrastination has been crossing my mind lately. What exactly consists of being a procrastinator, and when does it cross the line into something else?

Through out school, I have definatly been a giant procrastinator. Putting of a ten page paper to the night before. I finished my ENTIRE senior project the week it was due. I am definatly a procrastinator. But, I think it crosses the line when your act of procrastination actually affects other people's outcomes. Finishing the paper the night before, or finishing a project the day of is one thing, because they only affect your own outcome. If things go wrong, only you will be the one with the bad grade. But, when your procrastination ends up involving another person, that is not procrastinating, that is just selfish laziness. Your own laziness ends up affecting someone elses outcome.

I think the term "procrastinator" has become a very relax term, and a term that people seem to not use correctly. It has the conotation to be almost comical as well, "hahaha, yea...i didn't even start my paper yet, I'm such a procrastinator". And in fact procrastination is almost comical, when someone else is screwing themselves over. BUT, it is not comical, nor is it procrastination when your own selfish act is actually screwing someone else over as well. Just something I have been thinking about lately. So before you start to put something off, please consider: does this involve someone else? If it does, the please, consider again. If you keep putting it off for your own selfish laziness, then please consider never getting married or having kids, because you are obviously not a team player.

Thanks very much for listening, I will get back to work now.