Procrastination and our love affair with it

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 by Philly0381 | Discussion: Community

Okay folks it the first part of May, we are fast coming up on the midway point of Spring, just how many of those things on the 'Honey Do List' your spouse gave you are done?  What, none of them.

We all do it, 'lets wait for the first rain, and it will clean out the rain gutters', right?  Hmmm didn't quite work out like you thought,  Have you fix the water marks yet?

And don't you always feel good when you have the list in hand and are ready to start when the spouse comes over and whispers in your ear, 'that's last years list'.

Okay, so lets hear from all you handymen out there.  What was the one thing that you kept putting off that you shouldn't have?

Me, I never have the problem, hire a guy to do all mine.  I wonder who he hires to do his list?

Oops, just remembered, it ain't Spring for the folks in the Southern Hemisphere.  Now just what are all you folks up too?

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DrJBHL
Reply #21 Thursday, May 7, 2009 2:42 PM

I procrastinate all the time. It's my middle name

It might be mine also...but I put off using it so long I've forgotten it.

jpmurph1
Reply #22 Thursday, May 7, 2009 3:31 PM

I used to do it, now a couple of kids down the street do it, they make a good days pay, and i get to watch, i have done my fair share, I will tell you though, 16 year old kids have energy thats for sure, maybe i overpay them, but they look forward to it every week, and in this economy it gives them some spending cash, and teaches them some values, you work hard and you get paid well for it

teddybearcholla
Reply #23 Sunday, May 10, 2009 3:47 PM

Bought the house in February, '87 .....around about now-ish....the extension is finished...
...now I don't feel so bad....I started taking the wallpaper off the kitchen walls, the winter of 2008, half is done and painted...this past Winter, I only  painted the inside of a cupboard.... don't want to finish too quickly!!!

starkers
Reply #24 Friday, May 15, 2009 10:32 AM

I only procrastinate about procrastination... whether or not I'll think about those things I procrastinate about.  Then, when I get past that stage... if I do, I procrastinate about which procrastination I'll procrastinate further on.

All in all, I'm to far busy procrastinating about procrastination to proceed with whatever I was procrastinating about.

And it gets so tiring, too... procrastinating about procrastination, that is, that I eventually procrastinate as to whether I take a nap... or not.

karmat
Reply #25 Friday, May 15, 2009 11:50 AM

I took yesteday and today off work so that in total I would have five days off (it's a long weekend) in a row to get all my yard work done and I'm still sitting here on the computer, looking for any excuse to not get started. Damn it, I wish it would rain!!!! 

starkers
Reply #26 Friday, May 15, 2009 1:08 PM

Damn it, I wish it would rain!!!!

Nah, rain takes all the fun out of procrastination.... pray that it's sunny so you can procrastinate in a banana lounge over a few pina colada's

karmat
Reply #27 Friday, May 15, 2009 5:05 PM

Make it a strawberry daquiri, and you're on!

Philly0381
Reply #28 Friday, May 15, 2009 5:15 PM

i was going to post a reply and thank everyone for thier thoughts on the subject of procrastination, but I think I'll wait until tomorrow.

Uvah
Reply #29 Friday, May 15, 2009 6:27 PM

Then procrastinate tomorrow on what you can might have done today   Seems I do that too too much. Probably wouldn't be where I am now if I learned how not to. Oh well...live and learn. 

k10w3
Reply #30 Friday, May 15, 2009 8:33 PM

You know what....this is entirely the wrong way to look at things.  Somebody invented the word "procrastination" because they were agitated and needed something to calm down before that something was invented, and they made the word up to belittle somebody they thought they had power over, who happened to be "enjoying the moment".  See?  Procrastinating and "enjoying the moment" are the same thing, it's just holds different intonations depending on whose not particularly doing anything and whose irritated by that person's ability to not be agitated.

Being a somewhat moody person *cough-bipolar-cough*, I have learned that things get done when they need to get done.  if they don't get done, then those things weren't necessary in the first place.  I'm a bit peeved about the fact that "the church" invented clocks because God needed prayers on a very regular basis, and in the process ruined a perfectly pleasant lifestyle of getting up when one felt like it, feeding oneself when one felt like it, and sleeping when one felt like it without the tyranny of time pressures (not to mention the pressures of maintenance of an eternal soul, for that matter).  

After "being there" for friends and loved ones who have gone through tragedy, I've learned that procrastination isn't a "bad" thing, because what is really important, showing love to our family and friends, enjoying them while they still live, is the only thing that really matters.  The messy rain gutters don't mean a thing, when one realizes their loved one's lives could be gone in an instant.

Uvah
Reply #31 Friday, May 15, 2009 8:46 PM

"What does this mean?" We are highly procrastinating the origins of insufficient masses of protoplasmic nonsences? Seriously.....or not.

 

The important things in life are family, friends and all that is close to your heart. Like this Site. We're all family here.

Uvah
Reply #32 Friday, May 15, 2009 8:56 PM

Time for me to mosy on. Catcha tomorrow. Peace.

Philly0381
Reply #33 Friday, May 15, 2009 11:00 PM

k10w3 you have definately put your own slant on the question.

I nevered looked at procrastination as being bad or good, it is what it is.  People really only put off doing those things that they do because they know they can and it will not cause any problems.  Well sometimes.

We do stop what we are doing or change our plans when others need our help, especially family, not really what the thread or question was all about.

 

 

starkers
Reply #34 Friday, May 15, 2009 11:37 PM

i was going to post a reply and thank everyone for thier thoughts on the subject of procrastination, but I think I'll wait until tomorrow.

Goodonya.... never do today what you can put off 'til tomorrow.

Personally, I think procratinate is a word that politicians invented to conceal their ineptitude to get things done... to gloss over, sweeten the broken promises; "Oh look, we're still procrastinating about that one... but, but, but, it's still on the table.

And then it comes back to... never do today what can be put off 'til tomorrow.

Unfortunately, bankers didn't procrastinate... they just took the money and run.  And now we have politicians procrastinating as to whether they rewrite currencies to make the bankers ill-gotten gains worthless.

Again, it comes back to... never do today what can be put off 'til tomorrow.. 

On a serious note, I admittedly procratinate when it comes to chores like mowing lawns and gardening, etc  I have arthritic joints and spinal issues that can sometimes interfere with these chores, so yeah, I do procrastinate and think: "Oh well, tomorrow's another day." 

Sadly, sometimes, tomorrow comes and I feel no better or mobile, so the procrastination continues until the encroaching jungle obscures the view from my study window.. 

Actually, it's getting a bit that way now... so I'm procrastinating once again... as to whether I ask my son to do it.

k10w3
Reply #35 Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:01 AM

Philly0381
k10w3 you have definately put your own slant on the question.


Admittedly, I do carry a lot of baggage.  Sorry.

Philly0381
Reply #36 Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:10 AM

No harm in expressing yourself k10w3, you did keep the thread on subject.

starkers
Reply #37 Saturday, May 16, 2009 10:31 AM

Admittedly, I do carry a lot of baggage.

Same here.... well I would, if I didn't procrastinate terribly about handling it.  Right now I have some heavy duty issues I'm not too sure how to deal with... hopefully I'll be able to sort them out before I need one of those airport baggage trollies to tote them around.  Kids!!! Who said they become easier to manage when they get older?

 

vStyler
Reply #38 Saturday, May 16, 2009 10:36 AM

I sure did put off reading this thread for quite some time.

starkers
Reply #39 Saturday, May 16, 2009 11:06 AM

I sure did put off reading this thread for quite some time.

Well procrastinate no further, young man, immerse yourself in its profundity.

Philly0381
Reply #40 Saturday, May 16, 2009 11:21 AM

 Hehehehe, seems the Stardock folks are knee deep in it, procrastination that is.  A new Impulse Weekly came out and not a bit of customizing software news.  (See how I did that?  Why not give it a try.)

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