Thursday, January 22, 2009

another test, another hour of procrastination

I really need to get this in check. Why is procrastination so easy? I really wish that I had a higher tolerance for it but I don't right now, maybe one day I will. What would be really cool is if someone wrote a book about a totalitarian society in which procrastination is outlawed and anyone that remains to do it will have to face some sort of consequence. Maybe a society like that wouldn't be so bad. Slightly 1984-esque. Everyone would be working at maximum efficiency, which sounds like a good thing. Then the protagonist who has only grown up in this world and knows only this society could stumble on the history of the past and what procrastination really is. Then finding out that procrastination really has benefits and that people use to live longer in the past because they weren't constantly exhausted by working at maximum efficiency. This explains why the average life span has been rapidly decreasing with each successive decade, and the most common cause of is exhaustion. Then, he finds out that a secret group runs the society and is in charge of the pro-police (procrastination police) and the reason that this new society was formed was because the Earth was getting overpopulated and a something had to be done to fix the problem. So with people now dying at a much younger age, (50 is the new 80) the Earth is now less populated than it was hundreds of years ago. Starvation is no longer a problem because their is a plentiful food supply. There are no wars because they take too longer and are not efficient. Everyone is wealthy because they devote their entire day to their careers. So, our young protagonist has a problem that he now knows the past. Does he scream from the rooftops what is going on and the ways things used to be and can become again. Or does he become part of the silent majority and forget what he now knows. But it's a question of which world is better: the new world or the old world.

Wow, this is an example of what happens when I procrastinate studying for a test. The above paragraph was totally thought up just now as I went from sentence to sentence. But it is a thought. Hey maybe I'll write it, or maybe it'll just be another one of my thoughts that is dusted up by the wind and carried away like the feather in Forrest Gump.

Time spent procrastinating is a crazy thing to waste, cause you never know what you're gonna get from it.

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