Last Minute (Must Read)
Let's put it into a scenario for you. It's a friday afternoon, and you're in your last lesson of the day. Looking at the clock, you notice that there is only 5 minutes left! The person next to you is already slowly grabbing their text books and quietly placing it in their school bag... 4 minutes left. You try to listen to what the teacher has to say, but the only thing that jumps to your mind is how many seconds have gone by and how many there is to go. You're also hoping that the teacher isn't going to hand out homework. The teacher finally stops, and looks at the clock... 2 minutes to go. You feel a sudden burst of relief when the teacher gives permission for the class to start packing. Yes! No homewo- "Almost forgot! The deadline for the essay we talked about earlier, is due in 2 weeks, have a nice weekend everyone." OK, so you have an essay due in 2 weeks, so what, right? You got 14 days, half a month, 2 weekends, god knows how many hours. Point is, it feels like ages, so why bother with it now?
12 days till deadline
You just walked the dog and took out the garbage, so you're going to relax for a while, because you deserve it. Besides still got plenty of time, right?
5 days till deadline
Woah, that was crazy last night! You drank way too much! Fun time, though. But you're way too tired to efficiently work today, so you're going to take it easy, regain your energy, so you have plenty of it by tomorrow! Genius!
4 days till deadline
You just had a crap day, perhaps you had a fight with your parents, failed an important test, got talked about behind your back. Point is you are in no state to do anything.
3 days till deadline
You have way too much other homework due for tomorrow, in addition to that you may have to go to soccer training, or piano lesson, or you have job, maybe if you're done with all that, you can concentrate on the essay... it's a maybe.
2 days till deadline
OK! Now you really have to do something! And no excuses! All right, got your Word Document open, keyboard in front of you, notes on the side, and you are ready to begin. Hold on, maybe some study music will boost your work efficiency. Go check youtube, maybe theres a new hit out. You havn't heard this one yet, nope, you don't like it, how about this one, defiantly not this one, how about you try that, this isn't bad. All right let's start the essay! I am ready to begin! Wait, no, the music is disturbing you too much, turn it off. Hold on, that video on the side, looks kind of funny, just one video and than i'll begin. That wasn't funny at all, perhaps... just one more? You need a good laugh before you start. This video looks hilarious! That was OK, one more, just one more video, is it going to harm you in anyway? Of course not! Woah, this one is 7 minutes long though! Fine, but afterwards you're going to work... hopefully.
Crap! Wasted way too much time and its getting late, you know what? I’m going to get a good nights rest and start and finish it tomorrow.
18 hours till deadline
Damn! You should have started yesterday. You don’t even feel like doing it, well you never felt like doing it, but you hate it more than ever. You're frustrated about postponing your essay up to the last day, so to relax, you're going to play a game for 30 minutes and than you'll begin. (30 minutes later) You know what, another 15 minutes won’t matter to much. (15 minutes later) Just going to finish this mission off and than you'll begin. (hour later) Ah man! All right, time to hit the work. Ok, you're writing the title, done, name and class, done, let's give the title a font, how about this one? No, too cursive, and that font is way too fat, and - huh? They have symbols as fonts? That is weird. Who is going to use this symbol font anyways? As you philosophy the very possibilities of who may use that font, you notice that your room is a mess. It's been a mess for the last 2 weeks. No wonder, you procrastinated with your essay! Who can work in a messy surrounding. (Some time later) Woah, you havn't seen the room this clean since you first moved in, that calls for a break! (Some time later).
What?! That late! You're going to do it now, no YouTube, no games, no breaks; You're simply going to focus. But first you're going to get yourself a nice cold drink from down stairs.
13 hours till deadline
This is taking you painfully slow, you only have… let’s check word count. What? 234 words? It looks like so much more! Ugh, You're tired, if you go to bed now and set the alarm clock early, you can rush it off in the morning. Genius!
7 hours till deadline
CRAP! CRAP! CRAP! You overslept, and you're late for school. Lets see how many periods you have free today, before you need to hand the essay in. What?! Only one? That’s just going to have to do for you.
1 hour till deadline
All right, You're just going to write the first thing that comes to your mind. You're going to have to do it fast.
5 minutes till deadline
All right this will just have to do for you. OK and print! Why does a printer take so long to print?
Last minute till deadline
Done! You got to run to class now!
You hand it in, and you just know it’s going to be a fail, it's not a nice feeling, and you get angry at yourself, for not being disciplined, nor have willpower.
Next lesson, the teacher is handing the essays back and you have that same guilty feeling, you tell yourself you’ll never do it again. Never. You’ll discipline yourself and you'll be hardworking, and you will prove to this sch-
What? 4/7... 4/7! It’s not perfect but it’s a pass! How is this even possible?! Ah, who cares?
The teacher finishes out handing the essays and makes an annoncement: “The next assignment i'm handing out is due in 3 weeks, have a nice weekend everyone.”
3 Weeks? That’s even more time than you had before! So why bother with it now?
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- DeBeer