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Hobbies: Playing video games
TV Channel: Cartoon Channel
Likes: I like maths
Bad Habit: Procrastination
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The last word in the resume of an eleven years old child took my attention. He innocently calls it a bad habit. Procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with low-priority, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time. What caught my mind is that as a child we all know it very well that deferring work implies to a direct or indirect punishment may it be stick-beaten by a teacher or getting scolded by parents for getting lower grades. What is more surprising is that the fear keeps us away from procrastination in our childhood.
As we grow up, things get harder and our attitude gets lighter. We start delaying the work and become a machine working for deadlines. The disease takes worst shapes when we know what we have to do, but since we are so habituated to the similar situations, we think procrastination is fun. The fear which we once had in childhood wipes out and we become more responsible or in other words more irresponsible in terms of work, just because of procrastination.
And I must tell you that after six bangs by a sweeper on my room-door, I finally allowed him on his seventh visit, to clean my room. I gave him weird reasons, eyes and door both half-opened, in his past six visits, like "Dada kal kar dena (brother, do it tomorrow)", "abhi bahut nind aa rahi hai, raat ko late soya tha (feeling sleepy now as I slept late tonight)", "mai pehle se hi college ke liye late hoon (I am already late for college)" and so on. While he was cleaning the room, I asked him, "Dada, aap itni baar kyon bole room saaf karne ke liye ?(Why were you so eager to clean the room?)" and he replied gently, with broom in one hand and eyes on spider nets on ceiling, "Agar hum kaam khatm kar dete hain, to kaam hum se darta hai" which meant that, "If we finish the work, work will fear from us".
In short, if we don't procrastinate, we don't have to worry.
