If I didn’t procrastinate I would get so much less social networking time in

I was thinking today, when I was talking about procrastination that so many of my friendships have been formed or strengthened in times I have procrastinated. Who here has not spent time on facebook when they were avoiding another task?

Friendships have been formed with other procrastinators (and my secret theory is that everyone procrastinates to some degree) as we sit on facebook and race to see who can reply the fastest to a thread. Oh, 3 minutes! SNAP. Less then a minute ago. Now THAT’S impressive.

I don’t believe I would be half as emotionally rounded if I didn’t procrastinate. Because is procrastination not simply being in the moment? Following a desire or feeling when you have it. Call poetry when I’m looking out the window at work procrastination, or call it an inspired moment in time that I ran with. And because of that felt happier and more fulfilled and therefore got more work done that day.

Well, that’s the theory. And I like theories. Feel free to blow it out of the water. But stop to think when you are doing so… is there something else I should have been doing? Haha. There is no should. Just other things to do. We just choose or prioritise based on what is most important to us at one moment in time. Unfortunately it’s hard to always be prioritising things we merely do out of necessity when we have whims, desires and hopes. It’s hard to prioritise daily life when our human instincts want us to prioritise our desires. Good luck with your report, good luck with your washing up, good luck with following your heart. I think the latter is my priority, you know, secondarily to eating (though I tend to forget that when I’m not hungry).

- E.Gill 08/04/2010 "Vunerability is Strength"